Qaaqaait Al-Jisr
Qaaqaait al-Jisr (Arabic: قعقعية الجسر) is a village in the Nabatieh District in southern Lebanon.
History
In the 1596 tax records, it was named as a village, Qa'qayit an-Nahr, in the Ottoman nahiya (subdistrict) of Sagif under the liwa' (district) of Safad, with a population of 40 households, 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 3,695 akçe.
Demographics
In 2014 Muslims made up 99,23% of registered voters in Qaaqaait al-Jisr. 98,18% of the voters were Shiite Muslims.
References
- ^ Hütteroth and Abdulfattah, 1977, p. 184
- ^ Note that Rhode, 1979, p. 6 writes that the register that Hütteroth and Abdulfattah studied was not from 1595/6, but from 1548/9
- ^ "التوزيع حسب المذاهب للناخبين/ناخبات في بلدة قاقعية الجسر، قضاء النبطية محافظة النبطية في لبنان".
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
- Qaaqaiyeh Ej Jisr, Localiban
