Mayfadoun
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| name = Mayfadoun
| native_name = ميفدون
| native_name_lang = ar
| settlement_type = Municipality
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| subdivision_name1 = Nabatieh Governorate
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| subdivision_name2 = Nabatieh District
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Mayfadoun ({{Langx|ar|ميفدون}}) is a municipality in Nabatieh District in southern Lebanon.
History
In the 1596 tax records, it was named as a village, Mayfadun, in the Ottoman nahiya (subdistrict) of Sagif under the liwa' (district) of Safad, with a population of 11 households, all Muslim. The villagers paid a fixed tax-rate of 25 % on agricultural products, such as wheat, barley and olive trees; a total of 5,269 akçe.Hütteroth and Abdulfattah, 1977, p. 185Note that Rhode, 1979, p. [https://www.academia.edu/2026845/The_Administration_and_Population_of_the_Sancak_of_Safed_in_the_Sixteenth_Century 6] writes that the register that Hütteroth and Abdulfattah studied was not from 1595/6, but from 1548/9
{{see also|Gaza war|Israel–Hezbollah conflict (2023–present)}}
On 6 August 2024, four people, all of them Hezbollah fighters,{{Cite web |title=Hezbollah fighters killed in Lebanon strike: Report |url=https://aje.io/p0wtaz?update=3099438 |website=Al Jazeera}} were killed in an Israeli airstrike in the village.{{Cite web |date=6 August 2024 |title=Four killed by Israeli air attack in southern Lebanon: Report|url=https://aje.io/p0wtaz?update=3099408|website=Al Jazeera}}
Demographics
In 2014 Muslims made up 98.79% of registered voters in Mayfadoun. 97.13% of the voters were Shiite Muslims. https://lub-anan.com/المحافظات/النبطية/النبطية/ميفدون/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}}
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External links
- [http://www.localiban.org/article4446.html Mayfadoun], Localiban
{{Nabatieh District}}