Majdal Zoun

Majdal Zoun

مجدل زون
Majdal Zoun مجدل زون
Municipality
	Majdal Zoun
	Coordinates: 33°09′07″N 35°13′39″E / 33.1519°N 35.2275°E
Grid position	171/283 PAL
Country	Lebanon
Governorate	South Governorate
District	Tyre
Population
• Estimate (2024)	4,500

Majdal Zoun or Majdalzoun (Arabic: مجدل زون) is a municipality in the Tyre district of Southern Lebanon.^[1]^[2]

The total population of the town is about 4500, who work predominantly in agriculture. The municipality was established in 2004.^{[citation needed]}

History

Ottoman era

In 1596, it was named as a village, Majdal Zurayd, in the Ottoman nahiya (subdistrict) of Tibnin under the liwa' (district) of Safad, with a population of 5 households, all Muslim. The villagers paid a fixed tax-rate of 25 % on agricultural products, such as wheat, barley, fruit trees, goats & beehives; in addition to occasional revenues and a tax on winter pastures; a total of 3,100 akçe.^[3]^[4]

In 1881, the village was described under the name El Mejdel ("The watch-tower"^[5]) in the PEF's Survey of Western Palestine (SWP) as "A large and conspicuous village, containing about 400 Moslems ; it is situated on a hill, with figs, olives, and arable land. The water from birket; there are two cisterns in village." ^[6]

Modern era

Situated near the Israeli–Lebanese border,^[7] the town has been the target of numerous Israeli airstrikes throughout the conflict since 2023.^[8]

Demographics

In 2014 Muslims made up 99.96% of registered voters in Majdal Zoun. 99.53% of the voters were Shiite Muslims.^[9]

References

^ "مجدل زون… واجهة أثرية بين أيادٍ متعثّرة وكسّارات مدمرة". جريدة البناء | Al-binaa Newspaper (in Arabic). Retrieved 2024-10-27.
^ معجم قرى جبل عامل - الشيخ سليمان ضاهر العاملي - الجزء 2 - الصفحة 247
^ Hütteroth and Abdulfattah, 1977, p. 181
^ 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
^ Palmer, 1881, p.52
^ Conder and Kitchener, 1881, SWP I, p.151
^ "مجدل زون جارة المنصوري: فاجعة الطفولة المقتولة".
^ "Security update: Intense Israeli airstrikes pound Majdal Zoun, several towns in Jezzine".
^ https://lub-anan.com/المحافظات/الجنوب/صور/مجدلزون/المذاهب/

Bibliography

Conder, C.R.; Kitchener, H.H. (1881). The Survey of Western Palestine: Memoirs of the Topography, Orography, Hydrography, and Archaeology. Vol. 1. London: Committee of the Palestine Exploration Fund.
Hütteroth, W.-D.; Abdulfattah, K. (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.
Palmer, E.H. (1881). The Survey of Western Palestine: Arabic and English Name Lists Collected During the Survey by Lieutenants Conder and Kitchener, R. E. Transliterated and Explained by E.H. Palmer. Committee of the Palestine Exploration Fund.
Rhode, H. (1979). Administration and Population of the Sancak of Safed in the Sixteenth Century. Columbia University. Archived from the original on 2020-03-01. Retrieved 2017-12-04.

External links

Majdel Zoun (archive.org), localiban
Survey of Western Palestine, Map 3: IAA, Wikimedia commons

[1] "مجدل زون… واجهة أثرية بين أيادٍ متعثّرة وكسّارات مدمرة". جريدة البناء | Al-binaa Newspaper (in Arabic). Retrieved 2024-10-27.

[2] معجم قرى جبل عامل - الشيخ سليمان ضاهر العاملي - الجزء 2 - الصفحة 247

[Hutteroth-3] Hütteroth and Abdulfattah, 1977, p. 181

[4] 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

[5] Palmer, 1881, p.52

[6] Conder and Kitchener, 1881, SWP I, p.151

[7] "مجدل زون جارة المنصوري: فاجعة الطفولة المقتولة".

[8] "Security update: Intense Israeli airstrikes pound Majdal Zoun, several towns in Jezzine".

[9] ttps://lub-anan.com/المحافظات/الجنوب/صور/مجدلزون/المذاهب/

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