Zawtar al-Gharbiyah

Zawtar al-Gharbiyah (Arabic: زوطر الغربية) is a municipality in the Nabatieh District in Lebanon.

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.

[1][2] In 2014, Muslims made up 99.47% of registered voters in Zawtar al-Gharbiyah.

98.78% of the voters were Shiite Muslims.