Official Name: | Qsaibeh |
Other Name: | El Kossaybeh |
Native Name: | القصيبة |
Settlement Type: | Village |
Pushpin Map: | Lebanon |
Pushpin Label Position: | bottom |
Pushpin Mapsize: | 300 |
Pushpin Map Caption: | Location in Lebanon |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Type1: | Governorate |
Subdivision Name1: | Nabatieh Governorate |
Subdivision Type2: | District |
Subdivision Name2: | Nabatieh District |
Leader Title: | Mayor |
Leader Name: | Hassan Rachid Mehdi |
Leader Title1: | Mayor |
Leader Name1: | Najib Wehbe |
Unit Pref: | Imperial |
Population As Of: | 2011 |
Population Total: | 8400 |
Population Blank1 Title: | Ethnicities |
Population Blank2 Title: | Religions |
Timezone: | EET |
Utc Offset: | +2 |
Timezone Dst: | +3 |
Coordinates: | 33.3336°N 35.3967°W |
Grid Position: | 118/155 L |
Elevation M: | 400 |
Postal Code Type: | postal code |
Postal Code: | 71374 |
Area Code: | +961 - (07 - South Lebanon) |
Qsaibeh, (القصيبة), 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.
In the 1596 tax records, it was named as a village, Qusayba, in the Ottoman nahiya (subdistrict) of Sagif, part of Safad Sanjak, 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]
. Victor Guérin. Description Géographique Historique et Archéologique de la Palestine. 3: Galilee, pt. 2. 1880. L'Imprimerie Nationale. Paris. French.
. Harold Rhode . 1979 . Administration and Population of the Sancak of Safed in the Sixteenth Century . Columbia University.