Majdal Zoun
{{Infobox settlement
| name = Majdal Zoun
| native_name = مجدل زون
| settlement_type = Municipality
| pushpin_map = Lebanon
| grid_position =171/283 PAL
| subdivision_type = Country
| subdivision_name = {{flag|Lebanon}}
| subdivision_type1 = Governorate
| subdivision_name1 = South Governorate
| subdivision_type2 = District
| subdivision_name2 = Tyre
| population_total =
| population_est = 4500
| pop_est_as_of = 2024
| coordinates = {{coord}}
}}
Majdal Zoun or Majdalzoun ({{Langx|ar|مجدل زون}}) is a municipality in the Tyre district of Southern Lebanon.{{Cite web |title=مجدل زون… واجهة أثرية بين أيادٍ متعثّرة وكسّارات مدمرة |url=https://www.al-binaa.com/archives/article/26173 |access-date=2024-10-27 |website=جريدة البناء {{!}} Al-binaa Newspaper |language=ar}}معجم قرى جبل عامل - الشيخ سليمان ضاهر العاملي - الجزء 2 - الصفحة 247
The total population of the town is about 4500, who work predominantly in agriculture. The municipality was established in 2004.{{fact|date=November 2024}}
History
=Ottoman era=
In 1596, it was named as a village, Majdal Zurayd, in the Ottoman nahiya (subdistrict) of Tibnin under the liwa' (district) of Safad, with a population of 5 households, all Muslim. The villagers paid a fixed tax-rate of 25 % on agricultural products, such as wheat, barley, fruit trees, goats & beehives; in addition to occasional revenues and a tax on winter pastures; a total of 3,100 akçe.Hütteroth and Abdulfattah, 1977, p. 181Note 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/20190420031504/https://www.academia.edu/2026845/The_Administration_and_Population_of_the_Sancak_of_Safed_in_the_Sixteenth_Century |date=2019-04-20 }} writes that the register that Hütteroth and Abdulfattah studied was not from 1595/6, but from 1548/9
In 1881, the village was described under the name El Mejdel ("The watch-tower"Palmer, 1881, [https://archive.org/details/surveyofwesternp00conduoft/page/52/mode/1up p.52]) in the PEF's Survey of Western Palestine (SWP) as "A large and conspicuous village, containing about 400 Moslems ; it is situated on a hill, with figs, olives, and arable land. The water from birket; there are two cisterns in village."
=Modern era=
Situated near the Israeli–Lebanese border,{{Cite web |title=مجدل زون جارة المنصوري: فاجعة الطفولة المقتولة |url=https://www.almodon.com/society/2024/5/30/مجدل-زون-جارة-المنصوري-فاجعة-الطفولة-المقتولة}} the town has been the target of numerous Israeli airstrikes throughout the conflict since 2023.{{Cite web |title=Security update: Intense Israeli airstrikes pound Majdal Zoun, several towns in Jezzine |url=https://www.nna-leb.gov.lb/en/justice-law/724334/security-update-intense-israeli-airstrikes-pound-m}}
Demographics
In 2014 Muslims made up 99.96% of registered voters in Majdal Zoun. 99.53% of the voters were Shiite Muslims.https://lub-anan.com/المحافظات/الجنوب/صور/مجدلزون/المذاهب/
References
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Bibliography
{{refbegin}}
- {{cite book
|last1=Conder|first1=C.R.|author-link1=Claude Reignier Conder
|last2=Kitchener|first2=H.H.|author-link2=Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener
|year=1881|url=https://archive.org/details/surveyofwesternp01conduoft|title=The Survey of Western Palestine: Memoirs of the Topography, Orography, Hydrography, and Archaeology|location=London|publisher=Committee of the Palestine Exploration Fund|volume=1}}
- {{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 book
|last=Palmer|first=E.H.|author-link=Edward Henry Palmer
|year=1881
|url=https://archive.org/details/surveyofwesternp00conduoft
|title=The Survey of Western Palestine: Arabic and English Name Lists Collected During the Survey by Lieutenants Conder and Kitchener, R. E. Transliterated and Explained by E.H. Palmer
|publisher=Committee of the Palestine Exploration Fund}}
- {{cite book
|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
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20180520121949/http://www.localiban.org/article3830.html Majdel Zoun (archive.org)], localiban
- Survey of Western Palestine, Map 3: [http://www.iaa-archives.org.il/zoom/zoom.aspx?folder_id=93&type_id=6&id=8366 IAA], [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Survey_of_Western_Palestine_1880.03.jpg Wikimedia commons]
{{Tyre District}}