Qsaibeh (Nabatiyeh) Explained

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.

History

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]

Bibliography

. 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.

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Notes and 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