Dibbine

Dibbine دبين
Village
Dibbine Location within Lebanon
Coordinates: 33°22′14″N 35°34′42″E / 33.37056°N 35.57833°ECoordinates: 33°22′14″N 35°34′42″E / 33.37056°N 35.57833°E
Grid position	136/159 L
Country	Lebanon
Governorate	Nabatieh Governorate
District	Marjeyoun District
Elevation	650 m (2,130 ft)
Time zone	EET (UTC+2)
• Summer (DST)	EEST (UTC+3)
Dialing code	+961

Dibbine (Arabic: دبين‎‎) is a small village in the Marjeyoun District in southern Lebanon, located just north of Marjeyoun.

History

In 1596, it was named as a village, Dibin, in the Ottoman nahiya (subdistrict) of Tibnin under the liwa' (district) of Safad, with a population of 41 households and 6 bachelors, all Muslim. The villagers paid a fixed tax-rate of 25 % on agricultural products, such as wheat, barley, olive trees, "dulab harir", goats, beehives; in addition to occasional revenues, a press for olive oil or grape syrup; a total of 3,969 akçe.^[1][2]

References

1. Hütteroth and Abdulfattah, 1977, p. 181
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.

External links

• Dibbine, Localiban