Nmairiyeh
Appearance
Nmairiyeh
النميـرية | |
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village | |
Coordinates: 33°25′23″N 35°23′56″E / 33.42306°N 35.39889°E | |
Grid position | 118/165 L |
Country | ![]() |
Governorate | Nabatieh Governorate |
District | Nabatieh District |
Time zone | UTC+2 (EET) |
• Summer (DST) | +3 |
Nmairiyeh (Arabic: النميـرية) is a village in the Nabatieh District in southern Lebanon.
History
In the 1596 tax records, it was named as a village, Numayriyya, in the Ottoman nahiya (subdistrict) of Sagif under the liwa' (district) of Safad, with a population of 23 households and 6 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 2,492 akçe.[1][2]
Modern era
On July 29 2006, during the 2006 Lebanon War, Israeli war-planes killed 6 civilians, aged 8 to 56 years old. There were no Hizbollah presence in the village at the time of the attack.[3]
References
Bibliography
- HRW (2007). Why They Died: Civilian Casualties in Lebanon During the 2006 War. Human Rights Watch.
- Hütteroth, Wolf-Dieter; Abdulfattah, Kamal (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, Harold (1979). Administration and Population of the Sancak of Safed in the Sixteenth Century. Columbia University.
External links
- Nmairiyeh, Localiban