Qsaibeh (Nabatiyeh)

Qsaibeh, (النبطية), El Kossaybeh, also known as El Qsaïbé (in Arabic: القصيبة) is a village in southern Lebanon on the northern side of the Litani's river.

Qsaibeh القصيبة El Kossaybeh
Village
Qsaibeh Location in Lebanon
Coordinates: 33°20′1.26″N 35°23′47.68″E
Grid position	118/155 L
Country	Lebanon
Governorate	Nabatieh Governorate
District	Nabatieh District
Government
• Mayor	Hassan Rachid Mehdi
• Mayor	Najib Wehbe
Elevation	1,300 ft (400 m)
Population  (2011)
• Total	8,400
Time zone	UTC+2 (EET)
• Summer (DST)	+3
postal code	71374
Area code(s)	+961 - (07 - South Lebanon)

History

In the 1596 tax records, it was named as a village, Qusayba, in the Ottoman nahiya (subdistrict) of Sagif, part of Safad Sanjak, with a population of 26 households and 7 bachelors, all Muslim. The villagers paid a fixed tax-rate of 25 % on agricultural products, such as wheat, barley, olive trees, cotton, goats and beehives, in addition to "occasional revenues"; a total of 4,300 akçe.[1][2]

In 1875, Victor Guérin found here a village with 300 inhabitants, mostly Metualis and some Greek Orthodox. The mosque was possibly a former church.[3]

References

1. Hütteroth and Abdulfattah, 1977, p. 186
2. Note that Rhode, 1979, p. 6 writes that the register that Hütteroth and Abdulfattah studied was not from 1595/6, but from 1548/9
3. Guérin, 1880, p. 528

Bibliography

• 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.
• Guérin, V. (1880). Description Géographique Historique et Archéologique de la Palestine (in French). 3: Galilee, pt. 2. Paris: L'Imprimerie Nationale.
• Rhode, H. (1979). Administration and Population of the Sancak of Safed in the Sixteenth Century. Columbia University.

External links

• Qsaibeh (Nabatiyeh), Localiban