Sir el Gharbiyeh
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Sir el Gharbiyeh ({{langx|ar|سير الغربية}}) 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 a village Sir, in the Ottoman nahiya (subdistrict) of Sagif under the liwa' (district) of Safad. It has an all-Muslim population of 10 households. 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.Hütteroth and Abdulfattah, 1977, p. 186Note 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
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 was held underwater until he drowned.Hirst, David (2010) Beware of Small States. Lebanon, battleground of the Middle East. Faber and Faber. {{ISBN|978-0-571-23741-8}} pp.202-203Middle East International No 263, 22 November 1985, Publishers Lord Mayhew, Dennis Walters MP; p.17
Demographics
In 2014 Muslims made up 99.63% of registered voters in Sir el Gharbiyeh. 98.76% of the voters were Shiite Muslims. https://lub-anan.com/المحافظات/النبطية/النبطية/صير-الغربية/المذاهب/
Notable people
Hassan Maatouk, the Lebanon national football team all-time goalscorer and most-capped player, is native to Sir el Gharbiyeh.{{GSA player|hassan-maatouk/44318|access-date=13 May 2024|name=Hassan Maatouk}}
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/article4454.html Sir el Gharbiyeh], Localiban
{{Nabatieh District}}