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Sir al-Gharbiyah

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Sir al-Gharbiyah
سير الغربية
Village
Sir al-Gharbiyah is located in Lebanon
Sir al-Gharbiyah
Sir al-Gharbiyah
Location in Lebanon
Coordinates: 33°19′12″N 35°21′51″E / 33.32000°N 35.36417°E / 33.32000; 35.36417
Grid position114/154 L
Country Lebanon
GovernorateNabatieh Governorate
DistrictNabatieh District
Time zoneUTC+2 (EET)
 • Summer (DST)+3
Area code+961 - (07 - South Lebanon)

Sir al-Gharbiyah (Arabic: سير الغربية) is a village just north of the Litani River, in the Nabatieh District in southern Lebanon.

History

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In the 1596 tax records, it was named as a village, Sir, in the Ottoman nahiya (subdistrict) of Sagif under the liwa' (district) of Safad, with a population of 10 households, 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"; a total of 2,000 akçe.[1][2]

On 23 February 1985, the Israeli Army shot dead seven young men from the village. Six of the dead were aged between fifteen and twenty. They were chosen after a round up of all the village men and machine gunned in the legs, two were bayoneted in the abdomen and one held under water until he drowned.[3][4]

Demographics

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In 2014 Muslims made up 99,63% of registered voters in Sir al-Gharbiyah. 98,76% of the voters were Shiite Muslims.[5]

People

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Hassan Maatouk, the Lebanon national football team all-time goalscorer and most-capped player, is native to Sir al-Gharbiyah.[6]

References

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  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. ^ Hirst, David (2010) Beware of Small States. Lebanon, battleground of the Middle East. Faber and Faber. ISBN 978-0-571-23741-8 pp.202-203
  4. ^ Middle East International No 263, 22 November 1985, Publishers Lord Mayhew, Dennis Walters MP; p.17
  5. ^ https://lub-anan.com/المحافظات/النبطية/النبطية/صير-الغربية/المذاهب/
  6. ^ "Hassan Maatouk". Global Sports Archive. Retrieved 13 May 2024.

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