Mayfadoun
Municipality in Nabatieh Governorate, Lebanon
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Mayfadoun (Arabic: ميفدون) is a municipality in Nabatieh District in southern Lebanon.
Mayfadoun
ميفدون | |
|---|---|
Municipality | |
  Mayfadoun Location within Lebanon | |
| Coordinates: 33°20′55″N 35°28′35″E | |
| Grid position | 125/157 L |
| Country | Lebanon |
| Governorate | Nabatieh Governorate |
| District | Nabatieh District |
| Time zone | UTC+2 (EET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+3 (EEST) |
| Dialing code | +961 |
History
In the 1596 tax records, it was named as a village in the Ottoman nahiya (subdistrict) of Sagif under the liwa' (district) of Safad, with a population of 11 households, all Muslim. The villagers paid a fixed tax-rate of 25 % on agricultural products, such as wheat, barley and olive trees; a total of 5,269 akçe.[1][2]
On 6 August 2024, four people, all of them Hezbollah fighters,[3] were killed in an Israeli airstrike in the village amid renewed hostilities.[4]
Demographics
In 2014 Muslims made up 98.79% of registered voters in Mayfadoun. 97.13% of the voters were Shiite Muslims.[5]