Mayfadoun

Mayfadoun (Arabic: ميفدون) is a village in Nabatieh District in southern Lebanon.

Mayfadoun
ميفدون
Village
Map showing the location of Mayfadoun  within Lebanon
Map showing the location of Mayfadoun  within Lebanon
Mayfadoun
Location within Lebanon
Coordinates: 33°20′55″N 35°28′35″E
Grid position125/157 L
CountryLebanon
GovernorateNabatieh Governorate
DistrictNabatieh District
Time zoneUTC+2 (EET)
  Summer (DST)UTC+3 (EEST)
Dialing code+961

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.[1][2]

References

  1. Hütteroth and Abdulfattah, 1977, p. 185
  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

Bibliography

  • Hütteroth, Wolf-Dieter; Abdulfattah, Kamal (1977). Historical Geography of Palestine, Transjordan and Southern Syria in the Late 16th Century. Erlanger Geographische Arbeiten, Sonderband 5. Erlangen, Germany: Vorstand der Fränkischen Geographischen Gesellschaft. ISBN 3-920405-41-2.
  • Rhode, H. (1979). Administration and Population of the Sancak of Safed in the Sixteenth Century (PhD). Columbia University.
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