Sir el Gharbieh
سير الغربية
Village
Sir el Gharbieh is located in Lebanon
Sir el Gharbieh
Sir el Gharbieh
Location in Lebanon
Coordinates: 33°19′12″N 35°21′51″E / 33.32000°N 35.36417°E / 33.32000; 35.36417
Grid position114/154 L
Country Lebanon
GovernorateNabatieh Governorate
DistrictNabatieh District
Time zoneUTC+2 (EET)
 • Summer (DST)+3
Area code+961 - (07 - South Lebanon)

Sir el Gharbieh (Arabic: سير الغربية) is a village 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.[1][2]

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.[3][4]

People

Hassan Maatouk, the Lebanon national football team all-time goalscorer and most-capped player, is native to Sir el Gharbiyeh.[5]

References

  1. ↑ Hütteroth and Abdulfattah, 1977, p. 186
  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. ↑ 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
  4. ↑ Middle East International No 263, 22 November 1985, Publishers Lord Mayhew, Dennis Walters MP; p.17
  5. ↑ "Hassan Maatouk - Soccer player profile & career statistics - Global Sports Archive". globalsportsarchive.com. Retrieved 2020-02-19.

Bibliography

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