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Yohmor, Nabatieh

Yohmor is a village in the Nabatieh Governorate of Lebanon. It is located about 8 km from the town of Nabatieh. Beaufort Castle is located nearby the village.

History

In the 1596 tax records, it was named as a village, Yuhmur, in the Ottoman nahiya (subdistrict) of Sagif under the liwa' (district) of Safad, with a population of 42 households and 5 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 4,800 akçe.[1][2]

The village has a population of about 2,000, although the population swells to a much higher number in the summer. The residents are Shia Muslims. Prime agricultural crops include olives and tobacco.

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

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