Jarmaq

Jarmaq جرمق
Jarmaq Location in Lebanon
Coordinates: LB 33°23′7.6″N 35°32′5.77″E / 33.385444°N 35.5349361°E
Grid position	130/161 L
Country	Lebanon
Governorate	South Governorate
District	Jezzine District
Time zone	EET (UTC+2)
• Summer (DST)	+3 (UTC)

Jarmaq (جرمق) is a village in the Jezzine District in southern Lebanon.

History

In the 1596 tax records, it was named as a village, Jarman, in the Ottoman nahiya (subdistrict) of Sagif under the liwa' (district) of Safad, with a population of 52 households and 6 bachelors, all Muslim. 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.^[1][2]

References

1. Hütteroth and Abdulfattah, 1977, p. 185
2. 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

• 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.

External links

• Jarmaq, Localiban