Zefta () is a municipality located in Nabatieh District, Southern Lebanon.
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 17 households and 4 bachelors, all Muslim. The villagers paid a fixed tax-rate of 25 % on agricultural products, such as wheat, barley, fruit trees, goats and beehives, in addition to "occasional revenues" and a press for olive oil or grape syrup; a total of 1,740 akçe.Hütteroth and Abdulfattah, 1977, p. 186Note that Rhode, 1979, p. 6 writes that the register that Hütteroth and Abdulfattah studied was not from 1595/6, but from 1548/9
In 1875, Victor Guérin found here a village with 200 Metuali inhabitants.Guérin, 1880, p. 517
Demographics In 2014 Muslims made up 99.62% of registered voters in Zefta. 97.26% of the voters were Shiite Muslims. https://lub-anan.com/المحافظات/النبطية/النبطية/زفتا/المذاهب/
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External links Zefta , Localiban