Qsaibeh (Nabatiyeh)

Qsaibeh
القصيبة
El Kossaybeh
Village
Qsaibeh

Location in Lebanon

Coordinates: 33°20′1.26″N 35°23′47.68″E / 33.3336833°N 35.3965778°E / 33.3336833; 35.3965778
Grid position 118/155 L
Country  Lebanon
Governorate Nabatieh Governorate
District Nabatieh District
Government
  Mayor Hassan Rachid Mehdi
  Mayor Najib Wehbe
Elevation 1,300 ft (400 m)
Population (2011)
  Total 8,400
Time zone EET (UTC+2)
  Summer (DST) +3 (UTC)
postal code 71374
Area code(s) +961 - (07 - South Lebanon)

Qsaibeh, (النبطية), El Kossaybeh, also known as El Qsaïbé (in Arabic: القصيبة) is a village in southern Lebanon on the northern side of the Litani's river.

History

In the 1596 tax records, it was named as a village, Qusayba, in the Ottoman nahiya (subdistrict) of Sagif under the liwa' (district) of Safad, with a population of 26 households and 7 bachelors, all Muslim. The villagers paid a fixed tax-rate of 25 % on agricultural products, such as wheat, barley, olive trees, cotton, goats and beehives, in addition to "occasional revenues"; a total of 4,300 akçe.[1][2]

In 1875, Victor Guérin found here a village with 300 inhabitants, mostly Metualis and some Greek Orthodox. The mosque was possibly a former church.[3]

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. Guérin, 1880, p. 528

Bibliography

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