Zefta, Lebanon

Zefta زفتا
Village
Zefta Location within Lebanon
Coordinates: 33°26′54.0″N 35°23′53.5″E / 33.448333°N 35.398194°E / 33.448333; 35.398194Coordinates: 33°26′54.0″N 35°23′53.5″E / 33.448333°N 35.398194°E / 33.448333; 35.398194
Grid position	118/167 L
Country	Lebanon
Governorate	Nabatieh Governorate
District	Nabatieh District
Time zone	EET (UTC+2)
• Summer (DST)	EEST (UTC+3)
Dialing code	+961

Zefta (زفتا) is a village in Nabatieh District, southern Lebanon.

History

In the 1596 tax records, it was named as a village, Zafta, in the Ottoman nahiya (subdistrict) of Sagif under the liwa' (district) of Safad, with a population of 17 households and 4 bachelors, 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" and a press for olive oil or grape syrup; a total of 1,740 akçe.^[1]^[2]

In 1875, Victor Guérin found here a village with 200 Metuali inhabitants.^[3]

References

↑ Hütteroth and Abdulfattah, 1977, p. 186
↑ Note that Rhode, 1979, p. 6 writes that the register that Hütteroth and Abdulfattah studied was not from 1595/6, but from 1548/9
↑ Guérin, 1880, p. 517

Bibliography

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.
Guérin, Victor (1880). Description Géographique Historique et Archéologique de la Palestine (in French). 3: Galilee, pt. 2. Paris: L'Imprimerie Nationale.
Rhode, Harold (1979). Administration and Population of the Sancak of Safed in the Sixteenth Century. Columbia University.

External links

Zefta, Localiban

Nabatieh District, Nabatieh Governorate

Capital	Nabatieh

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