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Sir el Gharbiyeh
Municipality in Nabatieh Governorate, Lebanon From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Sir el Gharbiyeh (Arabic: سير الغربية) is a municipality just north of the Litani River, in the Nabatieh District in southern Lebanon.
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History
In the 1596 tax records, it was named a village Sir, in the Ottoman nahiya (subdistrict) of Sagif under the liwa' (district) of Safad. It has an all-Muslim population of 10 households. The villagers paid a fixed tax rate of 25% on agricultural products, such as wheat, barley, olive trees, goats, and beehives, in addition to "occasional revenues"; a total of 2,000 akçe.[1][2]
On 23 February 1985, the Israeli Army shot dead seven young men from the village. Six of the dead were aged between fifteen and twenty. They were chosen after a round-up of all the village men and machine-gunned in the legs, two were bayoneted in the abdomen and one was held underwater until he drowned.[3][4]
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Demographics
In 2014 Muslims made up 99.63% of registered voters in Sir el Gharbiyeh. 98.76% of the voters were Shiite Muslims.[5]
Notable people
Hassan Maatouk, the Lebanon national football team all-time goalscorer and most-capped player, is native to Sir el Gharbiyeh.[6]
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