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Village in Nabatieh Governorate, Lebanon
Zefta
زفتا
Village
Women of Zefta, 1960
Women of Zefta, 1960
Map showing the——location of Mayfadoun within Lebanon
Map showing the location of Mayfadoun within Lebanon
Zefta
Location within Lebanon
Coordinates: 33°26′54.0″N 35°23′53.5″E / 33.448333°N 35.398194°E / 33.448333; 35.398194
Grid position118/167 L
CountryLebanon
GovernorateNabatieh Governorate
DistrictNabatieh District
Time zoneUTC+2 (EET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+3 (EEST)
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.

In 1875, Victor Guérin found here a village with 200 Metuali inhabitants.

References

  1. ^ Hütteroth and Abdulfattah, 1977, p. 186
  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. ^ Guérin, 1880, p. 517

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