Kfar Remen

Kfar Reman كفر رمان Kfar Roummâne
City
Kfar Reman Location in Lebanon
Coordinates: 33°23′10.2″N 35°29′47.8″E / 33.386167°N 35.496611°E / 33.386167; 35.496611Coordinates: 33°23′10.2″N 35°29′47.8″E / 33.386167°N 35.496611°E / 33.386167; 35.496611
Grid position	127/161 L
Country	Lebanon
Governorate	Nabatieh Governorate
District	Nabatieh District
Time zone	EET (UTC+2)
• Summer (DST)	+3 (UTC)

Kfar Remen (كفر رمان) is a city in the Nabatieh Governorate region of southern Lebanon; located north east of Nabatieh. In the city located beautiful valley Maydane.

History

In the 1596 tax records, it was named as a village, Kfar Rumana, in the Ottoman nahiya (subdistrict) of Sagif under the liwa' (district) of Safad, with a population of 83 households and 1 bachelor, all Muslim. The villagers taxes on goats and bee hives, occasional revenues, a press for olive oil or grape syrup, in addition to a fixed sum; a total of 4,094 akçe.^[1]^[2]

In 1875, Victor Guérin found the village to have 180 Metuali inhabitants. The village had a mosque constructed with ancient materials.^[3]

References

↑ Hütteroth and Abdulfattah, 1977, p. 185
↑ Note that Rhode, 1979, p. 6 writes that the register that Hütteroth and Abdulfattah studied was not from 1595/6, but from 1548/9
↑ Guérin, 1880, pp. 519-520

Bibliography

Guérin, Victor (1880). Description Géographique Historique et Archéologique de la Palestine (in French). 3: Galilee, pt. 2. Paris: L'Imprimerie Nationale.
Hütteroth, Wolf-Dieter; Abdulfattah, Kamal (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, Harold (1979). Administration and Population of the Sancak of Safed in the Sixteenth Century. Columbia University.

External links

Kfar Roummane, Localiban

Nabatieh District, Nabatieh Governorate
Capital	Nabatieh
Towns and villages	Ansar Adchit Ain Boswar Ain Qana Aldawair Arab Saleem Arnoun Charkiyeh Choukine Doueir Ebba Habboûch Harouf Houmeen Jbaa Jarjouh Jebchit Kafra Kaoutariyet Al Siyad Kfar Remen Kfar Tebnit Kfar Fila Kfarjouz Kfar Sir Kfour Marwania Mayfadoun Nabatiyeh El Faouqa Nmairiyeh Qaaqaiyeh Ej Jisr Qsaibeh Schhour Sharqia Sir el Gharbiyeh Toul Yohmor Zawtar El Charkiyeh Zefta Zibdine
Other	Beaufort Castle Tourist Landmark of the Resistance

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