Nmairiyeh

Nmairiyeh النميـرية
village
Father and son having good times in the town of Nmairiyeh
Nmairiyeh Location in Lebanon
Coordinates: 33°25′23″N 35°23′56″E
Grid position	118/165 L
Country	Lebanon
Governorate	Nabatieh Governorate
District	Nabatieh District
Time zone	UTC+2 (EET)
• Summer (DST)	+3

Nmairiyeh (Arabic: النميـرية) is a village in the Nabatieh District in southern 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.

Demographics

In 2014 Muslims made up 99,40% of registered voters in Nmairiyeh. 97,77% of the voters were Shiite Muslims.

Bibliography

• HRW (2007). Why They Died: Civilian Casualties in Lebanon During the 2006 War. Human Rights Watch.
• Hütteroth, W.-D.; Abdulfattah, K. (1977). Historical Geography of Palestine, Transjordan and Southern Syria in the Late 16th Century. Erlanger Geographische Arbeiten, Sonderband 5. Erlangen, Germany: Vorstand der Fränkischen Geographischen Gesellschaft. ISBN 3-920405-41-2.
• Rhode, H. (1979). Administration and Population of the Sancak of Safed in the Sixteenth Century (PhD). Columbia University.

External links

• Nmairiyeh, Localiban