Grid position 118/165 L Governorate Nabatieh Governorate Time zone EET (UTC+2) | Country Lebanon District Nabatieh District | |
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Nmairiyeh (Arabic: النميـرية) is a village in the Nabatieh District in southern Lebanon.
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Map of Nmairiyeh, Lebanon
History
In the 1596 tax records, it was named as a village, Numayriyya, in the Ottoman nahiya (subdistrict) of Sagif under the liwa' (district) of Safad, with a population of 23 households and 6 bachelors, all Muslim. 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" and a press for olive oil or grape syrup; a total of 2,492 akçe.
Modern era
On July 29 2006, during the 2006 Lebanon War, Israeli war-planes killed 6 civilians, aged 8 to 56 years old. There were no Hizbollah presence in the village at the time of the attack.
References
Nmairiyeh Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA