| Sir al-Gharbiyah سير الغربية | |
|---|---|
| Municipality | |
  Sir al-GharbiyahLocation in Lebanon | |
| Coordinates: 33°19′12″N 35°21′51″E / 33.32000°N 35.36417°E / 33.32000; 35.36417 | |
| Grid position | 114/154 L |
| Country |  Lebanon |
| Governorate | Nabatieh Governorate |
| District | Nabatieh District |
| Time zone | UTC+2 (EET) |
| • Summer (DST) | +3 |
| Area code | +961 - (07 - South Lebanon) |
Sir al-Gharbiyah (Arabic: 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 as a village, Sir, in the Ottoman nahiya (subdistrict) of Sagif under the liwa' (district) of Safad, with a population of 10 households, 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"; a total of 2,000 akçe.
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 held under water until he drowned.
Demographics
In 2014 Muslims made up 99.63% of registered voters in Sir al-Gharbiyah. 98.76% of the voters were Shiite Muslims.
Notable people
Hassan Maatouk, the Lebanon national football team all-time goalscorer and most-capped player, is native to Sir al-Gharbiyah.
References
- Hütteroth and Abdulfattah, 1977, p. 186
- Note that Rhode, 1979, p. 6 writes that the register that Hütteroth and Abdulfattah studied was not from 1595/6, but from 1548/9
- Hirst, David (2010) Beware of Small States. Lebanon, battleground of the Middle East. Faber and Faber. ISBN 978-0-571-23741-8 pp.202-203
- Middle East International No 263, 22 November 1985, Publishers Lord Mayhew, Dennis Walters MP; p.17
- https://lub-anan.com/المحافظات/النبطية/النبطية/صير-الغربية/المذاهب/
- "Hassan Maatouk". Global Sports Archive. Retrieved 13 May 2024.
Bibliography
- Hütteroth, W.-D.; Abdulfattah, K. (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.
External links
- Sir el Gharbiyeh, Localiban
