Haddatha

Haddatha
حداتا
Village
Map showing the location of Haddatha within Lebanon
Haddatha

Location within Lebanon

Coordinates: 33°10′N 35°23′E / 33.167°N 35.383°E / 33.167; 35.383Coordinates: 33°10′N 35°23′E / 33.167°N 35.383°E / 33.167; 35.383
Grid position 186/285 PAL
Country  Lebanon
Governorate Nabatieh Governorate
District Bint Jbeil District
Elevation 760 m (2,490 ft)
Time zone EET (UTC+2)
  Summer (DST) EEST (UTC+3)


Haddatha (حداتا) [1] is a village in Bint Jbeil District in Southern Lebanon.

History

In 1596, it was named as a village, ‘“Hadata” in the Ottoman nahiya (subdistrict) of Tibnin under the liwa' (district) of Safad, with a population of 52 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”; a total of 4,640 akçe.[2][3]

In 1838, Edward Robinson noted the village on his travels in the region.[4]

In 1875, Victor Guérin found the population to be exclusively Metualis.[5] In 1881, the Palestine Exploration Fund's Survey of Western Palestine (SWP) described Haddatha: "A village, built of stone, containing about 150 Metawileh, on hill-top; a few grapes, figs and olives, and arable cultivation; there is a spring near and cisterns in village; a birket for cattle."[6]

During the 2006 Lebanon War, Israel shelled a house with 6 civilians, killing all of them. They were aged from 50 to 80 years old.[7]

References

  1. from a personal name, according to Palmer, 1881, p. 72
  2. Hütteroth and Abdulfattah, 1977, p. 184
  3. Note that Rhode, 1979, p. 6 writes that the register that Hütteroth and Abdulfattah studied was not from 1595/6, but from 1548/9
  4. Robinson and Smith, 1841, vol 3, p. 376
  5. Guérin, 1880, p. 385
  6. Conder and Kitchener, 1881, SWP I, p. 201
  7. HRW, 2007, pp. 117-118

Bibliography

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