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Shaqra, Lebanon
Shaqra (also spelt Chaqra, Chakra or even Chacra in French spellings; Arabic: شقرا [ALA-LC: Shaqrā]), officially Chaqra and Doubay (Arabic: شقرا ودوبيه Shaqra wa Dubay), is a municipality in southern Lebanon, 116 km from Beirut; located in the Bint Jbeil District. It consists of two parts: the village Chaqra; while Doubay (or Qal'at ad-Dubba), located about 4 km west of the village, is a castle dating at least to the Crusader era. Shaqra's inhabitants are called the Shaqrawis (French spelling: Chaqraouis).
The town is bounded to the northeast by Houla, to the east by Mais al-Jabal, to the southeast by Muhaibib, to the north by Majdel Selem, to the west by Safad El Battikh and Baraashit. It is located 6.8 km from the Golan Heights and the southern border of Lebanon.
To get there, you have to take the national 3 which goes from Beirut to Tyre, then the road to Bint-Jbeil.
In 2014 Muslims made up 99.61% of registered voters in Chaqra. 98.57% of the voters were Shiite Muslims.
There are 7,000 inhabitants in winter, which increases to about 12,000 during the summer months.
In 1596, it was named as a village, Saqra, in the Ottoman nahiya (subdistrict) of Tibnin under the Liwa Safad. It had a population of 58 households and 3 bachelors, all Muslim. The villagers paid a fixed tax rate of 25% on agricultural products, such as wheat (6,760 akçe), barley (560 akçe), olive trees (1,500 akçe), goats and beehives (520 akçe), in addition to occasional revenues (300 akçe); an olive oil press/press for grape syrup (12 akçe), a water mill (60 akçe); a total of 9,712 akçe.
In 1875 Victor Guérin noted: "This village is located on a plateau growing with wheat, or dotted with olive trees. It has 300 inhabitants, all Métu'alis. The mosque, facing from west to east, seems to have replaced an old church, from which it borrowed a number of beautiful ashlars []. Two (artificial) pools, now very poorly maintained, and a dozen cisterns also attest to the existence in this place of a village prior to the Arab invasion".
In 1877, H.H. Kitchener visited the area. After describing the castle, he continues: "To the west of the castle is the village of Chaqra, where I obtained a copy of an inscription. The sheikh of the village was extremely rude, and threw stones against the inscription when I attempted to copy it. I therefore left without doing so, and reported the matter to the governor, who immediately put the sheikh in prison. The next time I went to the village there was no opposition to my copying the inscription, I therefore had the sheikh set at liberty."
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Shaqra, Lebanon
Shaqra (also spelt Chaqra, Chakra or even Chacra in French spellings; Arabic: شقرا [ALA-LC: Shaqrā]), officially Chaqra and Doubay (Arabic: شقرا ودوبيه Shaqra wa Dubay), is a municipality in southern Lebanon, 116 km from Beirut; located in the Bint Jbeil District. It consists of two parts: the village Chaqra; while Doubay (or Qal'at ad-Dubba), located about 4 km west of the village, is a castle dating at least to the Crusader era. Shaqra's inhabitants are called the Shaqrawis (French spelling: Chaqraouis).
The town is bounded to the northeast by Houla, to the east by Mais al-Jabal, to the southeast by Muhaibib, to the north by Majdel Selem, to the west by Safad El Battikh and Baraashit. It is located 6.8 km from the Golan Heights and the southern border of Lebanon.
To get there, you have to take the national 3 which goes from Beirut to Tyre, then the road to Bint-Jbeil.
In 2014 Muslims made up 99.61% of registered voters in Chaqra. 98.57% of the voters were Shiite Muslims.
There are 7,000 inhabitants in winter, which increases to about 12,000 during the summer months.
In 1596, it was named as a village, Saqra, in the Ottoman nahiya (subdistrict) of Tibnin under the Liwa Safad. It had a population of 58 households and 3 bachelors, all Muslim. The villagers paid a fixed tax rate of 25% on agricultural products, such as wheat (6,760 akçe), barley (560 akçe), olive trees (1,500 akçe), goats and beehives (520 akçe), in addition to occasional revenues (300 akçe); an olive oil press/press for grape syrup (12 akçe), a water mill (60 akçe); a total of 9,712 akçe.
In 1875 Victor Guérin noted: "This village is located on a plateau growing with wheat, or dotted with olive trees. It has 300 inhabitants, all Métu'alis. The mosque, facing from west to east, seems to have replaced an old church, from which it borrowed a number of beautiful ashlars []. Two (artificial) pools, now very poorly maintained, and a dozen cisterns also attest to the existence in this place of a village prior to the Arab invasion".
In 1877, H.H. Kitchener visited the area. After describing the castle, he continues: "To the west of the castle is the village of Chaqra, where I obtained a copy of an inscription. The sheikh of the village was extremely rude, and threw stones against the inscription when I attempted to copy it. I therefore left without doing so, and reported the matter to the governor, who immediately put the sheikh in prison. The next time I went to the village there was no opposition to my copying the inscription, I therefore had the sheikh set at liberty."