Blat, Marjayoun

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Blat بلاط
Village
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	EET (UTC+2)
• Summer (DST)	EEST (UTC+3)
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

↑ Hütteroth and Abdulfattah, 1977, p. 183
↑ 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

Blat, Localiban

Marjeyoun District, Nabatieh Governorate

Capital	Marjeyoun

Towns and villages	Adaisseh Aadchit Alman Bani Haiyyan Blat Blida Deir Mimas Deir Siriane Dibbine Hula Ibl al-Saqi Kafr Kila Khiam Majdel Selm Markaba Meiss Ej Jabal Muhajbib Qabrikha Qantara Qlaiaa Qoussair Rab El Thalathine Talloussa Tayibe

Other	Tell Dibbine

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