Coordinates: 33°20′55″N 35°28′35″E / 33.34861°N 35.47639°E / 33.34861; 35.47639

Mayfadoun

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Mayfadoun
ميفدون
Village
Map showing the location of Mayfadoun within Lebanon
Map showing the location of Mayfadoun within Lebanon
Mayfadoun
Location within Lebanon
Coordinates: 33°20′55″N 35°28′35″E / 33.34861°N 35.47639°E / 33.34861; 35.47639
Grid position125/157 L
CountryLebanon
GovernorateNabatieh Governorate
DistrictNabatieh District
Time zoneUTC+2 (EET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+3 (EEST)
Dialing code+961

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.[1][2]

References

  1. ^ Hütteroth and Abdulfattah, 1977, p. 185
  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

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.
  • Rhode, H. (1979). Administration and Population of the Sancak of Safed in the Sixteenth Century (PhD). Columbia University.

External links

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