Blat, Marjayoun

Blat
بلاط
Village
Map showing the location of Blat within Lebanon
Blat
Location within Lebanon
Coordinates: 33°23′10″N 35°36′02″E / 33.38611°N 35.60056°E / 33.38611; 35.60056Coordinates: 33°23′10″N 35°36′02″E / 33.38611°N 35.60056°E / 33.38611; 35.60056
Grid position 136/161 L
Country  Lebanon
Governorate Nabatieh Governorate
District Marjeyoun District
Elevation 680 m (2,230 ft)
Time zone UTC+2 (EET)
 • Summer (DST) UTC+3 (EEST)
Dialing code +961

Blat (Arabic: بلاط‎) is a village in the Marjeyoun District in southern Lebanon, located just north of Marjeyoun.

History

In 1596, it was named as a village, Balat, in the Ottoman nahiya (subdistrict) of Tibnin under the liwa' (district) of Safad, with a population of 56 households and 2 bachelors, all Muslim. The villagers paid a fixed tax-rate of 25 % on agricultural products, such as wheat, barley, olive trees, vineyards, goats, beehives; in addition to occasional revenues, a press for olive oil or grape syrup and a water mill; a total of 6,000 akçe.[1][2]

References

  1. ↑ Hütteroth and Abdulfattah, 1977, p. 183
  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

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.
  • Rhode, Harold (1979). Administration and Population of the Sancak of Safed in the Sixteenth Century. Columbia University.
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