Qsaibeh (Nabatiyeh)

Qsaibeh, (النبطية), El Kossaybeh, also known as El Qsaïbé (in Arabic: القصيبة) is a village in southern Lebanon on the northern side of the Litani's river.

Qsaibeh

القصيبة

El Kossaybeh
Village
Qsaibeh
Location in Lebanon
Coordinates: 33°20′1.26″N 35°23′47.68″E
Grid position118/155 L
Country Lebanon
GovernorateNabatieh Governorate
DistrictNabatieh District
Government
 • MayorHassan Rachid Mehdi
 • MayorNajib Wehbe
Elevation
1,300 ft (400 m)
Population
 (2011)
 • Total8,400
Time zoneUTC+2 (EET)
 • Summer (DST)+3
postal code
71374
Area code(s)+961 - (07 - South Lebanon)

History

In the 1596 tax records, it was named as a village, Qusayba, in the Ottoman nahiya (subdistrict) of Sagif, part of Safad Sanjak, with a population of 26 households and 7 bachelors, all Muslim. The villagers paid a fixed tax-rate of 25 % on agricultural products, such as wheat, barley, olive trees, cotton, goats and beehives, in addition to "occasional revenues"; a total of 4,300 akçe.[1][2]

In 1875, Victor Guérin found here a village with 300 inhabitants, mostly Metualis and some Greek Orthodox. The mosque was possibly a former church.[3]

gollark: It could be argued that workers could just make their own company if they think they'd run it better.
gollark: i.e. are you required to provide people food and whatever, or just not steal it from them etc.
gollark: The difference is probably positive vs negative rights.
gollark: Anarchocapitalistic people would probably agree with that too.
gollark: Specifically, that nobody should force you to interact with people in certain ways and you should interact through free, willing trade.

References
  1. Hütteroth and Abdulfattah, 1977, p. 186
  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
  3. Guérin, 1880, p. 528

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.
  • Guérin, V. (1880). Description Géographique Historique et Archéologique de la Palestine (in French). 3: Galilee, pt. 2. Paris: L'Imprimerie Nationale.
  • Rhode, H. (1979). Administration and Population of the Sancak of Safed in the Sixteenth Century. Columbia University.
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