Zefta, Lebanon
Zefta is a municipality located in Nabatieh District, Southern Lebanon.
History
In the 1596 tax records, it was named as a village in the Ottoman nahiya of Sagif under the liwa' of Safad, with a population of 17 households and 4 bachelors, 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" and a press for olive oil or grape syrup; a total of 1,740 akçe.In 1875, Victor Guérin found here a village with 200 Metuali inhabitants.