Kfar Sir

Kfar Sir (كفرصير) is a village just north of the Litani River, in the Nabatieh District in southern Lebanon.

Kfar Sir كفرصير
Village
Kfar Sir Location in Lebanon
Coordinates: 33°19′30.0″N 35°24′02.8″E
Grid position	118/154 L
Country	Lebanon
Governorate	Nabatieh Governorate
District	Nabatieh District
Time zone	UTC+2 (EET)
• Summer (DST)	+3
Area code(s)	+961 - (07 - South Lebanon)

History

In the 1596 tax records, it was named as a village, Kafr Tir, in the Ottoman nahiya (subdistrict) of Sagif under the liwa' (district) of Safad, with a population of 58 households and 5 bachelors, all Muslim. The villagers paid a fixed tax-rate of 25 % on agricultural products, such as wheat, barley, olive trees, goats and beehives, in addition to "occasional revenues" and a press for olive oil or grape syrup; a total of 6,231 akçe.[1][2]

References

1. Hütteroth and Abdulfattah, 1977, p. 184
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, Harold (1979). Administration and Population of the Sancak of Safed in the Sixteenth Century. Columbia University.

External links

• Kfar Sir, Localiban