Zawtar al-Gharbiyah
Zawtar al-Gharbiyah
زوطر الغربية | |
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Municipality | |
  Zawtar al-Gharbiyah Location within Lebanon | |
| Coordinates: 33°19′20″N 35°27′45″E / 33.32222°N 35.46250°E | |
| Grid position | 125/154 L |
| Country |  Lebanon |
| Governorate | Nabatieh Governorate |
| District | Nabatieh District |
| Time zone | UTC+2 (EET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+3 (EEST) |
Zawtar al-Gharbiyah (Arabic: زوطر الغربية) is a municipality in the Nabatieh District in Lebanon.
History
[edit]In the 1596 tax records, it was named as a village, Sarqiyya, in the Ottoman nahiya (subdistrict) of Sagif under the liwa' (district) of Safad, with a population of 24 households, 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"; a total of 1,240 akçe.[1][2]
Demographics
[edit]In 2014, Muslims made up 99.47% of registered voters in Zawtar al-Gharbiyah. 98.78% of the voters were Shiite Muslims.[3]
References
[edit]- ^ Hütteroth and Abdulfattah, 1977, p. 186
- ^ Note that Rhode, 1979, p. 6 Archived 2019-04-20 at the Wayback Machine writes that the register that Hütteroth and Abdulfattah studied was not from 1595/6, but from 1548/9
- ^ "التوزيع حسب المذاهب للناخبين/ناخبات في بلدة زوطر الغربية، قضاء النبطية محافظة النبطية في لبنان". إعْرَفْ لبنان.
Bibliography
[edit]- 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. Columbia University. Archived from the original on 2020-03-01. Retrieved 2017-12-04.
