Mansouri
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Al-Mansouri () is a municipality in the Tyre District in South Lebanon.
==History== In the 1596 tax records in the early Ottoman era, it was named as a village, Mansura, in the nahiya (subdistrict) of Tibnin under the liwa' (district) of Safad. It had a population of 33 households, all Muslim. The villagers paid a fixed tax-rate of 25% on various agricultural products, including 1,300 akçe on wheat, 350 on barley; 150 on olive trees, 100 on "occasional revenues"; a total of 1,900 akçe.