Safad El Battikh Explained

Safad El Battikh
Native Name:صفد البطيخ
Native Name Lang:ara
Settlement Type:village
Pushpin Map:Lebanon
Pushpin Map Alt:Map showing the location of Baraachit within Lebanon
Pushpin Map Caption:Location within Lebanon
Coordinates:33.2°N 35.4328°W
Grid Position:190/289 PAL
Subdivision Type:Country
Subdivision Name:
Subdivision Type1:Governorate
Subdivision Name1:Nabatieh Governorate
Subdivision Type2:District
Subdivision Name2:Bint Jbeil District
Area Footnotes:[1]
Area Total Km2:1.69
Elevation M:680
Population Density Km2:auto
Timezone1:EET
Utc Offset1:+2
Timezone1 Dst:EEST
Utc Offset1 Dst:+3
Postal Code Type:Postal code
Area Code Type:Dialing code

Safad El Battikh (Arabic: صفد البطيخ)[2] is a village in Nabatiye Governorate, in the Bint Jbeil District of southern Lebanon, about from Beirut. The village is situated in the north eastern outskirts of the town of Tebnine, in the heart of the Lebanese Shia Muslim community of Jabal Amel. The village is 680m (2,230feet) above sea level.

History

See also: Beth-Anath. In the 1596 Ottoman tax records, the village, named (same as today but some history books transliterate differently such as Safad al-Battih), was located in the Ottoman nahiya (subdistrict) of Tibnin under the Liwa of Safad, with a population of 10 households and 2 bachelors, all Muslim. The villagers paid a fixed tax-rate of 25% on agricultural products, such as wheat (1,300 akçe), barley (420 akçe), fruit trees (380 akçe), goats and beehives (20 akçe), in addition to "occasional revenues" (80 akçe); a total of 2,200 akçe.[3] [4]

In 1856 it was named Safed on Kiepert's map of Palestine/Lebanon published that year,[5] while in 1875, Victor Guérin passed by and noted: "to my left, on a high hill, the small village of Safed el-Bathikha, inhabited by both Métualis and Christians."[6]

In 1881, the PEF's Survey of Western Palestine (SWP) described the village (which it called Safed el Battîkh): "A village, built of stone, containing about 100 Metawileh and fifty Christians, situated on hill-top, surrounded by arable land. The water supply is from several perennial springs and ten cisterns in the village."[7]

Modern era

The current Bint Jbeil province was created in 1922 by French colonials.[8]

In 2009, there were 125 members of the Lady of the Assumption parish of the Melkite Church in the village.[9]

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Notes and References

  1. http://www.localiban.org/safad-el-battikh-4245 Safad El Battikh
  2. Safed el Battîkh, Safed of the melons, according to Palmer 1881, p. 32 Palmer further notes: "The word battikh (melons) is used by the vulgar in the sense of nothing.' Thus if asked whether anything grows in a place which he knows to be barren, an Arab will reply ironically, 'melons'! This mistake has given rise to a statement in Robinson that a certain bare valley in the Tih is productive of 'melons'!"
  3. Hütteroth and Abdulfattah, 1977, p. 182
  4. Note that Rhode, 1979, p. 6 writes that the register that Hütteroth and Abdulfattah studied was not from 1595/6, but from 1548/9
  5. Kiepert, 1856, Map of Northern Palestine/Lebanon
  6. Guérin, 1880, p. 384
  7. Conder and Kitchener, 1881, p. 95
  8. [Ahmad Rida]
  9. Web site: Territory and statistics. Eparchy Greek Melkite Catholic of Tyre. https://web.archive.org/web/20180831175953/http://egmct.org/index.html. 31 August 2018. 29 August 2019. dead.

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