Mayfadoun
Mayfadoun
ميفدون | |
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Village | |
Coordinates: 33°20′55″N 35°28′35″E / 33.34861°N 35.47639°E | |
Grid position | 125/157 L |
Country | Lebanon |
Governorate | Nabatieh Governorate |
District | Nabatieh District |
Time zone | UTC+2 (EET) |
• Summer (DST) | UTC+3 (EEST) |
Dialing code | +961 |
Mayfadoun (Arabic: ميفدون) is a village in Nabatieh District in southern Lebanon.
History[edit]
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.[1][2]
References[edit]
Bibliography[edit]
- 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.
- Rhode, H. (1979). Administration and Population of the Sancak of Safed in the Sixteenth Century (PhD). Columbia University.
External links[edit]
- Mayfadoun, Localiban