title: Nmairiyeh
text: # Nmairiyeh
  
  Nmairiyeh (Arabic: النميـرية) is a village in the Nabatieh District in southern Lebanon.
  
  ## History
  
  In the 1596 tax records, it was named as a village, Numayriyya, in the Ottoman nahiya (subdistrict) of Sagif under the liwa' (district) of Safad, with a population of 23 households and 6 bachelors, all Muslim. The villagers paid a fixed tax-rate of 25% on agricultural products, such as wheat, barley, olive trees, goats and beehives, in addition to "occasional revenues" and a press for olive oil or grape syrup; a total of 2,492 akçe.
  
  ### Modern era
  
  On July 29, 2006, during the 2006 Lebanon War, Israeli war-planes killed 6 civilians, aged 8 to 56 years old. There were no Hizbollah presence in the village at the time of the attack.
  
  