Zefta, Nabatieh

Zefta زفتا
Municipality
Women of Zefta, 1960
Zefta Location within Lebanon
Coordinates: 33°26′54.0″N 35°23′53.5″E
Grid position	118/167 L
Country	Lebanon
Governorate	Nabatieh Governorate
District	Nabatieh District
Time zone	UTC+2 (EET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+3 (EEST)
Dialing code	+961

Zefta (زفتا) is a municipality in Nabatieh District, southern Lebanon.

History

In the 1596 tax records, it was named as a village, Zafta, in the Ottoman nahiya (subdistrict) of Sagif under the liwa' (district) of Safad, with a population of 17 households and 4 bachelors, all Muslim. The villagers paid a fixed tax-rate of 25 % on agricultural products, such as wheat, barley, fruit trees, goats and beehives, in addition to "occasional revenues" and a press for olive oil or grape syrup; a total of 1,740 akçe.[1][2]

In 1875, Victor Guérin found here a village with 200 Metuali inhabitants.[3]

Demographics

In 2014 Muslims made up 99.62% of registered voters in Zefta. 97.26% of the voters were Shiite Muslims.[4]

References

1. Hütteroth and Abdulfattah, 1977, p. 186
2. Note that Rhode, 1979, p. 6 writes that the register that Hütteroth and Abdulfattah studied was not from 1595/6, but from 1548/9
3. Guérin, 1880, p. 517
4. https://lub-anan.com/المحافظات/النبطية/النبطية/زفتا/المذاهب/

Bibliography

• Hütteroth, W.-D.; Abdulfattah, K. (1977). Historical Geography of Palestine, Transjordan and Southern Syria in the Late 16th Century. Erlanger Geographische Arbeiten, Sonderband 5. Erlangen, Germany: Vorstand der Fränkischen Geographischen Gesellschaft. ISBN 3-920405-41-2.
• Guérin, V. (1880). Description Géographique Historique et Archéologique de la Palestine (in French). Vol. 3: Galilee, pt. 2. Paris: L'Imprimerie Nationale.
• Rhode, H. (1979). Administration and Population of the Sancak of Safed in the Sixteenth Century (PhD). Columbia University.

External links

• Zefta, Localiban