Blat,_Marjayoun

Blat, Marjayoun

Blat, Marjayoun

Village in Nabatieh Governorate

For other places with similar names, see Blat (disambiguation).

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

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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]

In 1838, Eli Smith noted Blat's population as being Metawileh.[3]

On 27 December 1993, during the Israeli occupation of southern Lebanon, a Norwegian soldier was killed when an Israeli tank, stationed in neighbouring Aishiyeh, fired on his UNIFIL patrol outside Blat. The Indian Army contingent with UNIFIL had a small base camp in the village.[4]

References

  1. [1]
    Hütteroth and Abdulfattah, 1977, p. 183
  2. [2]
    Note that Rhode, 1979, p. 6 Archived 2019-04-20 at the Wayback Machine writes that the register that Hütteroth and Abdulfattah studied was not from 1595/6, but from 1548/9
  3. [3]
    Robinson and Smith, 1841, vol 3, 2nd appendix, p. 137
  4. [4]
    Tveit, Odd Karsten (2010) Goodbye Lebanon. Israel's First Defeat. Rimal Publication. Translated by Peter Scott-Hansen. ISBN 978-9963-715-03-9 pp.278,373

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