Baflay
Baflay
بافليه | |
|---|---|
Municipality | |
  Baflay | |
| Coordinates: 33°15′48″N 35°21′54″E / 33.26333°N 35.36500°E | |
| Country |  Lebanon |
| Governorate | South Governorate |
| District | Tyre |
| Time zone | GMT +3 |
Baflay (Arabic: بافليه) is a municipality in Tyre District, Governorate of South Lebanon.
History
[edit]In 1881, the PEF's Survey of Western Palestine (SWP) described the village (which they called Baflei[1]):"A small village, built of stone, containing about seventy Metawileh and thirty Christians, situated on the side of a hill with arable cultivation and a few fig-trees around; water from cisterns and a spring near."[2]
Demographics
[edit]In 2014, Muslims made up 99.37% of registered voters in Baflay. 96.56% of the voters were Shiite Muslims.[3]
References
[edit]Bibliography
[edit]- 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.
- 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.
External links
[edit]- Baflay (archive.org), localiban
- Survey of Western Palestine, Map 2: IAA, Wikimedia commons
