Editing Tabgha (section)

===Ottoman period===
In 1596, as Al-Tabigha was part of the [[Ottoman Empire]], a village was recorded, ''Tabiga'', in the ''[[nahiya]]'' (subdistrict) of [[Jira (nahiyah)|Jira]] under the ''[[Liwa (Arabic)|liwa']]'' ("district") of [[Safad]], with a population of 8 households, an estimated 44 persons, all [[Muslim]]s. It paid taxes on a number of crops, including [[wheat]] and [[barley]], as well as on goats, beehives and orchards; a total of 3,290 [[akçe]].<ref>Hütteroth and Abdulfattah, 1977, p. 176. Quoted in Khalidi, 1992, p. 542.</ref><ref>Note that Rhode, 1979, p. [https://www.academia.edu/2026845/The_Administration_and_Population_of_the_Sancak_of_Safed_in_the_Sixteenth_Century 6] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190420031504/https://www.academia.edu/2026845/The_Administration_and_Population_of_the_Sancak_of_Safed_in_the_Sixteenth_Century |date=2019-04-20 }} writes that the register that Hütteroth and Abdulfattah studied was not from 1595/6, but from 1548/9</ref>

[[Johann Ludwig Burckhardt]] described the place as having a few houses and a mill, where the inhabitants were fishermen.<ref>Burckhardt, 1822, p. [https://archive.org/stream/b22017355#page/318/mode/1up 318], cited in Khalidi, 1992, p. 542</ref>

In 1838 [[Edward Robinson (scholar)|Edward Robinson]] found here a small village, with one or two mills, built by [[Zahir al-Umar]], but by then belonging to the government.<ref>Robinson and Smith, 1841, vol 3, pp. [https://archive.org/stream/biblicalresearch03robiuoft#page/297/mode/1up 297]-8, cited in Khalidi, 1992, p. 542</ref>