Kfar Remen

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Kfar Reman
كفر رمان
Kfar Roummâne
City
Kfar Reman is located in Lebanon
Kfar Reman
Kfar Reman
Location in Lebanon
Coordinates: 33°23′10.2″N 35°29′47.8″E / 33.386167°N 35.496611°E / 33.386167; 35.496611Coordinates: 33°23′10.2″N 35°29′47.8″E / 33.386167°N 35.496611°E / 33.386167; 35.496611
Grid position127/161 L
Country Lebanon
GovernorateNabatieh Governorate
DistrictNabatieh District
Time zoneUTC+2 (EET)
 • Summer (DST)+3

Kfar Remen (Arabic: كفر رمان‎) is a city in the Nabatieh Governorate region of southern Lebanon; located north east of Nabatieh. In the city located beautiful valley Maydane.

History[]

In the 1596 tax records, it was named as a village, Kfar Rumana, in the Ottoman nahiya (subdistrict) of Sagif under the liwa' (district) of Safad, with a population of 83 households and 1 bachelor, all Muslim. The villagers taxes on goats and bee hives, occasional revenues, a press for olive oil or grape syrup, in addition to a fixed sum; a total of 4,094 akçe.[1][2]

In 1875, Victor Guérin found the village to have 180 Metuali inhabitants. The village had a mosque constructed with ancient materials.[3]

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
  3. ^ Guérin, 1880, pp. 519-520

Bibliography[]

  • Guérin, V. (1880). Description Géographique Historique et Archéologique de la Palestine (in French). 3: Galilee, pt. 2. Paris: L'Imprimerie Nationale.
  • 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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