sentences:  In the 1596 tax records, it was named as a village, "Kafr Kuk", in the Ottoman "nahiya" (subdistrict) of Tibnin, part of Safad Sanjak, with a population of 31 households and 2 bachelors, all Muslim.The villagers paid taxes on agricultural products, such as wheat, barley, olive trees, goats, beehives and winter pastures; a total of 4,700 akçe.In 1875 Victor Guérin visited and noted that the village had about 1,000 Metawileh inhabitants.