Zawtar al-Gharbiyah () is a municipality in the Nabatieh District in Lebanon, paired with Zawtar al-Sharqiyah (Eastern Zawtar).
History In the 1596 tax records, it was named as a village, Sarqiyya, in the Ottoman nahiya (subdistrict) of Sagif under the liwa' (district) of Safad, with a population of 24 households, 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"; a total of 1,240 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
Demographics In 2014, Muslims made up 99.47% of registered voters in Zawtar al-Gharbiyah. 98.78% of the voters were Shiite Muslims.
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External links Zaoutar El Gharbiyeh (archive.org)