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Qaaqaait al-Jisr
Municipality in Nabatieh Governorate, Lebanon From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Qaaqaait al-Jisr (Arabic: قعقعية الجسر, romanized: Qaʿqaʿiyyat al-Jisr) is a municipality in the Nabatieh District in southern Lebanon.
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History
In the 1596 tax records, named Qa'qayit an-Nahr, it was a village in the Ottoman nahiya (subdistrict) of Sagif under the liwa' (district) of Safad, with a population of 40 households, all Muslim. The villagers paid a fixed tax-rate of 25 % on agricultural products, such as wheat, barley, fruit trees, goats and beehives, in addition to "occasional revenues" and a press for olive oil or grape syrup; a total of 3,695 akçe.[1][2]
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Demographics
In 2014 Muslims made up 99.23% of registered voters in Qaaqaait al-Jisr. 98.18% of the voters were Shiite Muslims.[3]
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