Mayfadoun
Mayfadoun (Arabic: ميفدون) is a village in Nabatieh District in southern Lebanon.
History
In the 1596 tax records, it was named as a village, Mayfadun, in the Ottoman nahiya (subdistrict) of Sagif under the liwa' (district) of Safad, with a population of 11 households, all Muslim. The villagers paid a fixed tax-rate of 25 % on agricultural products, such as wheat, barley and olive trees; a total of 5,269 akçe.
On 6 August 2024, four people, all of them Hezbollah fighters, were killed in an Israeli airstrike in the village.
Demographics
In 2014 Muslims made up 98,79% of registered voters in Mayfadoun. 97,13% of the voters were Shiite Muslims.
References
- ^ Hütteroth and Abdulfattah, 1977, p. 185
- ^ Note that Rhode, 1979, p. 6 writes that the register that Hütteroth and Abdulfattah studied was not from 1595/6, but from 1548/9
- ^ "Hezbollah fighters killed in Lebanon strike: Report". Al Jazeera.
- ^ "Four killed by Israeli air attack in southern Lebanon: Report". Al Jazeera. 6 August 2024.
- ^ https://lub-anan.com/المحافظات/النبطية/النبطية/ميفدون/المذاهب/
Bibliography
- 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 (PhD). Columbia University.
External links
- Mayfadoun, Localiban
