Jarmaq, Palestine
Jarmaq (Arabic: الجرمق)[1] (also: Khirbet Rom[2]) was a village in the northern Galilee, near Safed. It was inhabited by Druze before it was abandoned in the 1880s.
Location
[edit]It is situated at the lower, western ridge of Mount Meron, overlooking the Sea of Galilee.[3]
History
[edit]Ceramic shards from the Byzantine and the early Arabic era have been found here[4][5] SWP found "traces of ruins around this village".[6]
Ottoman era
[edit]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.[7][8]
Jarmaq was a Druze village, which began to decline in the 1830s, with Edward Robinson calling it "almost deserted".[3] 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.[9][3] 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.[3]
By 1948, it was not inhabited.[7]
References
[edit]- ^ Palmer, 1881, p 75 "el Jermuk"
- ^ Meyers, Strange and Groth, 1978, p.3
- ^ a b c d Firro 1992, p. 167.
- ^ TIR, 1994, p.156
- ^ Dauphin,1998, p. 654
- ^ Conder and Kitchener, SWP I; 1881, p. 224
- ^ a b 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.
- ^ Conder and Kitchener, SWP I; 1881, p. 198
Bibliography
[edit]- 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.
- 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
[edit]- Survey of Western Palestine, Map 4: IAA,Wikimedia commons
