Kafr Kila, Lebanon
| KafarKila كفركلا | |
|---|---|
| Village | |
  KafarKila Location within Lebanon | |
| Coordinates: 33°17′N 35°33′E / 33.283°N 35.550°ECoordinates: 33°17′N 35°33′E / 33.283°N 35.550°E | |
| Grid position | 201/298 PAL |
| Country |
 Lebanon |
| Governorate | Nabatieh Governorate |
| District | Marjeyoun District |
| Elevation | 400 m (1,300 ft) |
| Time zone | EET (UTC+2) |
| • Summer (DST) | EEST (UTC+3) |
| Dialing code | +961 |
KafarKila (Arabic: كفركلا , also, Kfarkila, Kfarkela, Kafarkela) is a small village in Southern Lebanon.
Kafarkila name means "The village of the pasturage".[1]
History
In 1596, it was named as a village, Kafr Kuk, in the Ottoman nahiya (subdistrict) of Tibnin under the liwa' (district) of Safad, with a population of 31 households and 2 bachelors, all Muslim. The villagers paid a taxes on agricultural products, such as wheat, barley, olive trees, goats, beehives and winter pastures; a total of 4,700 akçe.[2][3]
In 1875 Victor Guérin visited, and noted that the village had about 1,000 Metawileh inhabitants.[4] He further noted: "The mosque and several of the houses are built of old materials. The spring is partly ancient."[5]
In 1881, the Palestine Exploration Fund's Survey of Western Palestine (SWP) described it as "a village, built of stone and mud, containing about 150 Moslems, situated on sloping ground, with figs, olives, and arable land around. A good spring near."[6]
Modern era
The total population of the village is about 14,500. The occupants' number increases dramatically during summer. Its altitude is around 700 m from sea level.[7] Kafarkila is well known for its high quality olive oil, grapes, and bee honey in addition to many other farming activities.
Many developments are currently taking place due to the efforts and the determinism of the municipality side by side with the people in order to mitigate the problems that accumulated over the years from central government indifference, civil war, occupation and border wars.
References
- ↑ Palmer, 1881, p. 23
- ↑ Hütteroth and Abdulfattah, 1977, p. 184
- ↑ Note that Rhode, 1979, p. 6 writes that the register that Hütteroth and Abdulfattah studied was not from 1595/6, but from 1548/9
- ↑ Guérin, 1880, p. 277
- ↑ Guérin, 1880, pp. 277-278; as given in Conder and Kitchener, 1881, SWP I, pp. 117
- ↑ Conder and Kitchener, 1881, SWP I, pp. 87-88
- ↑ http://www.collinsmaps.com/maps/Lebanon/Nabatiye/Kfar-Kila/P1070450.00.aspx. Retrieved 28 May 2013. Missing or empty
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Bibliography
- Conder, Claude Reignier; Kitchener, H. H. (1881). The Survey of Western Palestine: Memoirs of the Topography, Orography, Hydrography, and Archaeology. 1. London: Committee of the Palestine Exploration Fund.
- Guérin, Victor (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.
- Palmer, E. H. (1881). The Survey of Western Palestine: Arabic and English Name Lists Collected During the Survey by Lieutenants Conder and Kitchener, R. E. Transliterated and Explained by E.H. Palmer. Committee of the Palestine Exploration Fund.
- Rhode, Harold (1979). Administration and Population of the Sancak of Safed in the Sixteenth Century. Columbia University.
External links
- Survey of Western Palestine, Map 2: IAA, Wikimedia commons
- Kfar Kila, Localiban
- www.kafarkila.net
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