Kfar Sir
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Kfar Sir or Kfarsir ({{langx|ar|كفرصير}}) is a municipality just north of the Litani River, in the Nabatieh District in southern 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.Hütteroth and Abdulfattah, 1977, p. 184Note that Rhode, 1979, p. [https://www.academia.edu/2026845/The_Administration_and_Population_of_the_Sancak_of_Safed_in_the_Sixteenth_Century 6] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200301141739/https://www.academia.edu/2026845/The_Administration_and_Population_of_the_Sancak_of_Safed_in_the_Sixteenth_Century |date=2020-03-01 }} writes that the register that Hütteroth and Abdulfattah studied was not from 1595/6, but from 1548/9
Demographics
In 2014 Muslims made up 99.36% of registered voters in Kfar Sir. 98.99% of the voters were Shiite Muslims. https://lub-anan.com/المحافظات/النبطية/النبطية/كفرصير/المذاهب/
References
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Bibliography
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- {{cite book
|last1=Hütteroth |first1=W.-D.|author-link1=Wolf-Dieter Hütteroth
|last2=Abdulfattah|first2=K. |author-link2=Kamal Abdulfattah
|title=Historical Geography of Palestine, Transjordan and Southern Syria in the Late 16th Century |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wqULAAAAIAAJ |year=1977
|publisher=Erlanger Geographische Arbeiten, Sonderband 5. Erlangen, Germany: Vorstand der Fränkischen Geographischen Gesellschaft
|isbn=3-920405-41-2 }}
- {{cite thesis |type=PhD
|last=Rhode |first=H. |authorlink=Harold Rhode
|date=1979 |url=https://www.academia.edu/2026845/The_Administration_and_Population_of_the_Sancak_of_Safed_in_the_Sixteenth_Century |title=Administration and Population of the Sancak of Safed in the Sixteenth Century |publisher=Columbia University |access-date=2017-12-04 |archive-date=2020-03-01 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200301141739/https://www.academia.edu/2026845/The_Administration_and_Population_of_the_Sancak_of_Safed_in_the_Sixteenth_Century |url-status=dead }}
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External links
- [http://www.localiban.org/article4443.html Kfar Sir], Localiban
{{Nabatieh District}}