Al-Qusaibah
human settlement in Lebanon
Al-Qusaibah (Arabic: القصيبة, romanized: al-Quṣaybah), sometimes El Kossaybeh or El Qsaïbé, is municipality in Nabatieh Governorate on the northern side of the Litani River.
History
In the 1596 tax records, it was named as a village, Qusayba, in the Ottoman nahiya (subdistrict) of Sagif, part of Safad Sanjak, with a population of 26 households and 7 bachelors, all Muslim. The villagers paid a fixed tax-rate of 25% on agricultural products, such as wheat, barley, olive trees, cotton, goats and beehives, in addition to "occasional revenues"; a total of 4,300 akçe.
In 1875, Victor Guérin found here a village with 300 inhabitants, mostly Metualis and some Greek Orthodox. The mosque was possibly a former church.
Demographics
In 2014 Muslims made up 99.62% of registered voters in Al-Qusaibah. 99.49% of the voters were Shiite Muslims.
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