Kfar Sir

Kfar Sir
كفرصير
Village
Kfar Sir

Location in Lebanon

Coordinates: 33°19′30.0″N 35°24′02.8″E / 33.325000°N 35.400778°E / 33.325000; 35.400778
Grid position 118/154 L
Country  Lebanon
Governorate Nabatieh Governorate
District Nabatieh District
Time zone EET (UTC+2)
  Summer (DST) +3 (UTC)
Area code(s) +961 - (07 - South Lebanon)

Kfar Sir (كفرصير) is a village 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]

References

  1. Hütteroth and Abdulfattah, 1977, p. 184
  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

Bibliography

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