In the 16th century, Kfarsghab figured in the two Ottoman Censuses of 1519 and 1571.Khalifeh, I. K.: North Lebanon in the Sixteenth Century, pages 30-65. It is credited respectively with 14 and 12 male adults (of more than 15 years old), all Christians and married. And around 1600, the population of the neighboring village of Qaryat Moussa took refuge in Kfarsghab merging with the existing population after some unrecorded events obliged them to abandon their village.Abi Khattar, A.: Moukhtasar Tarikh Jabal…, page 65. According to the author, Bqoufa and by extension Qaryat Moussa disappeared because of very heavy snow seasons and political exactions
