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Jarmaq (Arabic: الجرمق) (also: Khirbet Rom) was a village in the northern Galilee, near Safed. It was inhabited by Druze before it was abandoned in the 1880s.
Location
It is situated at the lower, western ridge of Mount Meron, overlooking the Sea of Galilee.
History
Ceramic shards from the Byzantine and the early Arabic era have been found here SWP found "traces of ruins around this village".
Ottoman era
In the 1596 tax records, it was named as a village, Jarmaq, in the Ottoman nahiya (subdistrict) of Jira, part of Safad Sanjak, with a population of 79 households and 12 bachelors, all Muslims. The villagers paid taxes on goats (500 a.), "occasional revenues" (550 a.), in addition to a fixed sum of 8,000; a total of 9,050 akçe.
Jarmaq was a Druze village, which began to decline in the 1830s, with Edward Robinson calling it "almost deserted". In 1877 , "El Jermuk" was described as "A small half-ruined village, built of stone, containing about thirty Druzes. Water supply from a good well and springs near. 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.
By 1948, it was not inhabited.
References
- Palmer, 1881, p 75 "el Jermuk"
- Meyers, Strange and Groth, 1978, p.3
- ^ Firro 1992, p. 167.
- TIR, 1994, p.156
- Dauphin,1998, p. 654
- Conder and Kitchener, SWP I; 1881, p. 224
- ^ Hütteroth and Abdulfattah, 1977, p. 176
- Note that Rhode, 1979, p.6 Archived 2019-04-20 at the Wayback Machine writes that the register that Hütteroth and Abdulfattah studied was not from 1595/6, but from 1548/9.
- Robinson and Smith, 1856, p. 75
- Conder and Kitchener, SWP I; 1881, p. 198
Bibliography
- Bonar, A.A.; M'Cheyne, R.M. (1843). Narrative of a mission of inquiry to the Jews from the Church of Scotland in 1839. Philadelphia : Presbyterian board of publications.
- Conder, C.R.; Kitchener, H.H. (1881). The Survey of Western Palestine: Memoirs of the Topography, Orography, Hydrography, and Archaeology. Vol. 1. London: Committee of the Palestine Exploration Fund.
- Dauphin, C. (1998). La Palestine byzantine, Peuplement et Populations. BAR International Series 726 (in French). Vol. III : Catalogue. Oxford: Archeopress. ISBN 0-86054-905-4.
- Firro, Kais (1992). A History of the Druzes. Vol. 1. BRILL. ISBN 9004094377.
- Hütteroth, W.-D.; Abdulfattah, K. (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.
- Meyers, E.M.; Strange, James F.; Groh, Dennis E. (1978). "The Meiron Excavation Project: Archeological Survey in Galilee and Golan, 1976". Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research. 230 (230): 1–24. doi:10.2307/1356609. JSTOR 1356609.
- Palmer, E.H. (1881). The Survey of Western Palestine: Arabic and English Name Lists Collected During the Survey by Lieutenants Conder and Kitchener, R. E. Transliterated and Explained by E.H. Palmer. Committee of the Palestine Exploration Fund.
- Robinson, E.; Smith, E. (1856). Later Biblical Researches in Palestine and adjacent regions: A Journal of Travels in the year 1852. London: John Murray.
- Rhode, H. (1979). Administration and Population of the Sancak of Safed in the Sixteenth Century (PhD). Columbia University. Archived from the original on 2016-10-10. Retrieved 2017-11-03.
- Tsafrir, Y.; Leah Di Segni; Judith Green (1994). (TIR): Tabula Imperii Romani. Iudaea, Palestina: Eretz Israel in the Hellenistic , Roman and Byzantine Periods; Maps and Gazetteer. Jerusalem: Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities. ISBN 965-208-107-8.
External links
- Survey of Western Palestine, Map 4: IAA,Wikimedia commons
