Zibqin

{{Infobox settlement    |name = Zibqin |official_name = زبقين |other_name = |native_name = |nickname = |settlement_type = Municipality |total_type =  |motto =  |image_skyline = File:Israeli troops in south Lebanon (1982).jpg |imagesize = |image_caption =Israeli troops in Zibqin, in 1982 |image_flag = |flag_size = |image_seal = |seal_size = |image_shield = |shield_size = |image_blank_emblem = |blank_emblem_type = |blank_emblem_size = |image_map = |mapsize = |map_caption = |image_map1 = |mapsize1 = |map_caption1 = |image_dot_map = |dot_mapsize = |dot_map_caption = |dot_x = |dot_y = |pushpin_map = Lebanon |pushpin_label_position =  |pushpin_map_caption = |pushpin_mapsize =  |subdivision_type = Country |subdivision_name = {{flag|Lebanon}} | subdivision_type1 = Governorate | subdivision_name1 = South Governorate | subdivision_type2 = District | subdivision_name2 = Tyre  |seat_type = |seat = |parts_type = |parts_style =  |parts =  |p1 = |p2 =   |government_footnotes = |government_type = |leader_title = |leader_name =  |leader_title1 = |leader_name1 = |established_title =  |established_date =  |area_magnitude = |unit_pref =Imperial |area_footnotes = |area_total_km2 = 14.57  |area_land_km2 = 14.57 |area_water_km2 = 0 |area_total_sq_mi = |area_land_sq_mi = |area_water_sq_mi = |area_water_percent =  |elevation_footnotes =  |elevation_m =390 |elevation_ft = |elevation_max_m = |elevation_max_ft = |elevation_min_m = |elevation_min_ft =  |population_as_of = 2015 |population_footnotes = |population_note = |population_total = 3000 |population_density_km2 =  |population_density_sq_mi =  |timezone = GMT +3 |utc_offset = |timezone_DST = |utc_offset_DST = |coor_type =  |coordinates = {{coord|33|10|N|35|16|E|region:LB|display=inline}} | grid_position = 175/285 PAL  |postal_code_type =  |postal_code = |area_code = |website = |footnotes = }} '''Zibqin''' ({{langx|ar|زبقين|Zibqīn}}) is a municipality in South Lebanon, {{convert|103|km|mi|0}} from the capital, Beirut, 4 km from the border with Israel and {{convert|450|m|ft|1}} above sea level.

It was heavily damaged in the 2006 Lebanon-Israel war and underwent a heavy process of rebuilding.

==Etymology== According to E. H. Palmer, the name probably comes from the Arabic word for "to bind", or "confine".<ref>Palmer, 1881, pp. [https://archive.org/stream/surveyofwesternp00conduoft#page/46/mode/1up 46][https://archive.org/stream/surveyofwesternp00conduoft#page/60/mode/1up 60]</ref>

==History== In 1596, it was named as a village, ''Zibqin,'' in the Ottoman ''nahiya'' (subdistrict) of Tibnin under the ''liwa''' (district) of Safad, with a population of 12 households and 12 bachelor, all Muslim. The villagers paid a fixed tax rate of 25% on agricultural products, such as wheat, barley, olive trees, goats and beehives, in addition to "occasional revenues" and winter pastures; a total of 3,172 akçe.<ref name="Hutteroth">Hütteroth and Abdulfattah, 1977, p. 182</ref><ref>Note that Rhode, 1979, p. [https://www.academia.edu/2026845/The_Administration_and_Population_of_the_Sancak_of_Safed_in_the_Sixteenth_Century 6] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161010135324/http://www.academia.edu/2026845/The_Administration_and_Population_of_the_Sancak_of_Safed_in_the_Sixteenth_Century |date=2016-10-10 }} writes that the register that Hütteroth and Abdulfattah studied was not from 1595/6, but from 1548/9</ref>

In 1875, Victor Guérin found the village to contain eighty Metawileh.<ref>Guérin, 1880, p. [https://archive.org/stream/descriptiongogr00gugoog#page/n451/mode/1up 411], as given by Conder and Kitchener, 1881, SWP I, p. [https://archive.org/stream/surveyofwesternp01conduoft#page/152/mode/1up 152]</ref> He further "observed a great pool, constructed with regularly cut stones, and several broken columns. On the chapter of one he saw a mosaic representing a cross ''fleuronnée'', which proves that it came from a church."<ref>Guérin, 1880, p. [https://archive.org/stream/descriptiongogr00gugoog#page/n451/mode/1up 411], as translated by Conder and Kitchener, 1881, SWP I, p. [https://archive.org/stream/surveyofwesternp01conduoft#page/193/mode/1up 193]</ref>

In 1881, the PEF's ''Survey of Western Palestine'' (SWP) described it: "Small ruined village on a hill, surrounded by brushwood; contains about thirty Moslems [..], and has olives and arable land to the south. The water is supplied by cisterns."<ref>Conder and Kitchener, 1881, SWP I, p. [https://archive.org/stream/surveyofwesternp01conduoft#page/152/mode/1up 152]</ref>

During the 2006 Lebanon-Israel war, on 13 July, 12 civilians were killed by Israeli missiles, fired on the house of the late Mukhtar. All the victims belonged to the Bzeih family, and they included 6 women and 5 children, aged between 11 and 78 years of age. There was no Hezbollah activity in the vicinity at the time of the attack. The IDF gave no explanations as to why the house had been attacked.<ref>HRW, 2007, pp. [https://books.google.com/books?id=8P9-VqpNRv4C&pg=PA87 87]- 88</ref> On August 9, 2025 six soldiers of the Lebanese Army were killed in explosion that took place in a Hezbollah depot.<ref>{{Cite web |title=شهداء كمين "الحزب" |url=https://www.mtv.com.lb/news/1602025 |access-date=2025-08-11 |website=MTV Lebanon |language=en}}</ref>

==Demographics== In 2014 Muslims made up 99.78% of registered voters in Zibqin. 99.21% of the voters were Shiite Muslims.<ref>{{cite web | title=التوزيع حسب المذاهب للناخبين/ناخبات في بلدة زبقين، قضاء صور محافظة الجنوب في لبنان | url=https://lub-anan.com/المحافظات/الجنوب/صور/زبقين/المذاهب/ }}</ref>

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==Bibliography== {{refbegin}} *{{cite book |last1=Conder|first1=C.R.|authorlink1=Claude Reignier Conder |last2=Kitchener|first2=H.H.|authorlink2=Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener |year=1881|url=https://archive.org/details/surveyofwesternp01conduoft|title=The Survey of Western Palestine: Memoirs of the Topography, Orography, Hydrography, and Archaeology|location=London|publisher=Committee of the Palestine Exploration Fund|volume=1}} *{{cite book |last=Guérin|first=V.|author-link=Victor Guérin |title=Description Géographique Historique et Archéologique de la Palestine|url=https://archive.org/details/descriptiongogr00gugoog|volume=3: Galilee, pt. 2|year=1880|publisher=L'Imprimerie Nationale |location=Paris|language=French}} *{{cite book |author= HRW|author-link= Human Rights Watch|title= Why They Died: Civilian Casualties in Lebanon During the 2006 War|url= https://books.google.com/books?id=8P9-VqpNRv4C|year= 2007|publisher= Human Rights Watch}} *{{cite book |last1=Hütteroth |first1=W.-D.|author-link1=Wolf-Dieter Hütteroth |last2=Abdulfattah|first2=K. |author-link2=Kamal Abdulfattah |title=Historical Geography of Palestine, Transjordan and Southern Syria in the Late 16th Century |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wqULAAAAIAAJ |year=1977 |publisher=Erlanger Geographische Arbeiten, Sonderband 5. Erlangen, Germany: Vorstand der Fränkischen Geographischen Gesellschaft |isbn=3-920405-41-2 }} *{{cite book |last=Palmer|first=E.H.|author-link=Edward Henry Palmer |year=1881|url=https://archive.org/details/surveyofwesternp00conduoft|title=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|publisher=Committee of the Palestine Exploration Fund}} *{{cite book |last=Rhode |first=H. |author-link=Harold Rhode |date=1979 |url=https://www.academia.edu/2026845 |title=Administration and Population of the Sancak of Safed in the Sixteenth Century |publisher=Columbia University |access-date=2017-12-04 |archive-date=2020-03-01 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200301141739/https://www.academia.edu/2026845/The_Administration_and_Population_of_the_Sancak_of_Safed_in_the_Sixteenth_Century |url-status=dead }} {{refend}}

==External links== *Survey of Western Palestine, Map 3: [http://www.iaa-archives.org.il/zoom/zoom.aspx?folder_id=93&type_id=6&id=8366 IAA] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160314231555/http://www.iaa-archives.org.il/zoom/zoom.aspx?folder_id=93&type_id=6&id=8366 |date=2016-03-14 }}, [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Survey_of_Western_Palestine_1880.03.jpg Wikimedia commons] *[http://www.localiban.org/article4644.html Zebqine] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160828223823/http://www.localiban.org/article4644.html |date=2016-08-28 }}, Localiban *[https://web.archive.org/web/20150429164128/http://zebqine.com/default.aspx http://zebqine.com] {{Tyre District}} {{Coord|33|10|N|35|16|E|display=title|region:LB_type:city_source:GNS-enwiki}}

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