Jarmaq
Jarmaq (جرمق) is a village in the Jezzine District in southern Lebanon, located 82 kilometers (51 mi) southeast of the capital Beirut. It is situated at the lower, western ridge of Mount Meron, overlooking the Sea of Galilee.[1] It has an altitude of 390 meters (1,280 ft). Its land area is 448 hectares.[2]
Jarmaq
جرمق | |
|---|---|
  Jarmaq Location in Lebanon | |
| Coordinates: 33°23′7.6″N 35°32′5.77″E | |
| Grid position | 130/161 L |
| Country |  Lebanon |
| Governorate | South Governorate |
| District | Jezzine District |
| Time zone | UTC+2 (EET) |
| • Summer (DST) | +3 |
History
In the 1596 tax records, it was named as a village, Jarman, in the Ottoman nahiya (subdistrict) of Shaqif Arnun, part of Safad Sanjak, with a population of 52 households and 6 bachelors, all Muslims. The villagers paid taxes on goats and beehives, "occasional revenues", a press for olive oil or grape syrup, "dulab", in addition to a fixed sum; a total of 5,502 akçe.[3][4]
Jarmaq was a Druze village, which began to decline in the 1830s, with Edward Robinson calling it "almost deserted".[1] In 1877 it was described as "a small, half-ruined village of stone" with thirty Druze inhabitants.[1] The inhabitants emigrated to the Hauran in the following decade. Jarmaq is the ancestral village of the eponymous Jarmaqani family resident in modern Salkhad, al-Qurayya and Urman.[1]
References
- Firro 1992, p. 167.
- "Jarmaq". Localliban. 6 July 2007. Retrieved 30 September 2020.
- Hütteroth and Abdulfattah, 1977, p. 185
- Note that Rhode, 1979, p.6 writes that the register that Hütteroth and Abdulfattah studied was not from 1595/6, but from 1548/9.
Bibliography
- Firro, Kais (1992). A History of the Druzes. 1. BRILL. ISBN 9004094377.
- Hütteroth, Wolf-Dieter; Abdulfattah, Kamal (1977). Historical Geography of Palestine, Transjordan and Southern Syria in the Late 16th Century. Erlanger Geographische Arbeiten, Sonderband 5. Erlangen, Germany: Vorstand der Fränkischen Geographischen Gesellschaft. ISBN 3-920405-41-2.
- Rhode, Harold (1979). Administration and Population of the Sancak of Safed in the Sixteenth Century. Columbia University.
