Kfar Sir or Kfarsir (Arabic: كفرصير) is a municipality just north of the Litani River, in the Nabatieh District in southern Lebanon.
History
In the 1596 tax records, it was named as a village, Kafr Tir, in the Ottoman nahiya (subdistrict) of Sagif under the liwa' (district) of Safad, with a population of 58 households and 5 bachelors, all Muslim. The villagers paid a fixed tax-rate of 25 % on agricultural products, such as wheat, barley, olive trees, goats and beehives, in addition to "occasional revenues" and a press for olive oil or grape syrup; a total of 6,231 akçe.[1][2]
Demographics
In 2014 Muslims made up 99.36% of registered voters in Kfar Sir. 98.99% of the voters were Shiite Muslims.[3]
References
- ^ Hütteroth and Abdulfattah, 1977, p. 184
- ^ Note that Rhode, 1979, p. 6 Archived 2020-03-01 at the Wayback Machine writes that the register that Hütteroth and Abdulfattah studied was not from 1595/6, but from 1548/9
- ^ https://lub-anan.com/المحافظات/النبطية/النبطية/كفرصير/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.
- Rhode, H. (1979). Administration and Population of the Sancak of Safed in the Sixteenth Century (PhD). Columbia University. Archived from the original on 2020-03-01. Retrieved 2017-12-04.
External links
- Kfar Sir, Localiban
