Sir el Gharbieh
سير الغربية | |
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Village | |
Coordinates: 33°19′12″N 35°21′51″E / 33.32000°N 35.36417°E | |
Grid position | 114/154 L |
Country | ![]() |
Governorate | Nabatieh Governorate |
District | Nabatieh District |
Time zone | UTC+2 (EET) |
• Summer (DST) | +3 |
Area code | +961 - (07 - South Lebanon) |
Sir el Gharbieh (Arabic: سير الغربية) is a village just north of the Litani River, in the Nabatieh District in southern Lebanon.
In the 1596 tax records, it was named as a village, Sir, in the Ottoman nahiya (subdistrict) of Sagif under the liwa' (district) of Safad, with a population of 10 households, 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"; a total of 2,000 akçe.[1][2]
On 23 February 1985, the Israeli Army shot dead seven young men from the village. Six of the dead were aged between fifteen and twenty. They were chosen after a round up of all the village men and machine gunned in the legs, two were bayoneted in the abdomen and one held under water until he drowned.[3][4]
Hassan Maatouk, the Lebanon national football team all-time goalscorer and most-capped player, is native to Sir el Gharbiyeh.[5]