Qaaqaait al-Jisr
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Qaaqaait al-Jisr
قعقعية الجسر | |
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village | |
  Qaaqaait al-Jisr Location in Lebanon | |
| Coordinates: 33°19′32″N 35°25′5″E / 33.32556°N 35.41806°E | |
| Grid position | 120/154 L |
| Country |  Lebanon |
| Governorate | Nabatieh Governorate |
| District | Nabatieh District |
| Time zone | UTC+2 (EET) |
| • Summer (DST) | +3 |
Qaaqaait al-Jisr (Arabic: قعقعية الجسر) is a village in the Nabatieh District in southern Lebanon.
History
[edit]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.[1][2]
Demographics
[edit]In 2014 Muslims made up 99,23% of registered voters in Qaaqaait al-Jisr. 98,18% of the voters were Shiite Muslims.[3]
References
[edit]- ^ 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
[edit]- 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
[edit]- Qaaqaiyeh Ej Jisr, Localiban
