Baflay
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Baflay
بافليه | |
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Municipality | |
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| Country | File:Flag of Lebanon.svg 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 | edit source]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 | edit source]In 2014, Muslims made up 99.37% of registered voters in Baflay. 96.56% of the voters were Shiite Muslims.[3]
References
[edit | edit source]Bibliography
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External links
[edit | edit source]- Baflay (archive.org), localiban
- Survey of Western Palestine, Map 2: IAA, Wikimedia commons
