Nmairiyeh

Nmairiyeh
النميـرية
village
Nmairiyeh

Location in Lebanon

Coordinates: 33°25′23″N 35°23′56″E / 33.42306°N 35.39889°E / 33.42306; 35.39889Coordinates: 33°25′23″N 35°23′56″E / 33.42306°N 35.39889°E / 33.42306; 35.39889
Grid position 118/165 L
Country  Lebanon
Governorate Nabatieh Governorate
District Nabatieh District
Time zone EET (UTC+2)
  Summer (DST) +3 (UTC)

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

  1. Hütteroth and Abdulfattah, 1977, p. 185
  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. HRW, 2007, pp. 118-119

Bibliography

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