Jarmaq, Palestine
Village in the northern Galilee, near Safed
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Jarmaq (Arabic: الجرمق, romanized: al-Jarmaq),[1] also Khirbet Rom[2] (خربة روم, Khirbat Rūm), was a village in the northern Galilee, near Safed, situated at the lower, western ridge of Mount Meron (Jabal al-Jarmaq), overlooking the Sea of Galilee.[3] It was inhabited by Druze before it was abandoned in the 1880s.
History
Ceramic shards from the Byzantine and the early Arabic era have been found in Jarmaq.[4][5] SWP found "traces of ruins around this village".[6]
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.[7][8]
Jarmaq was a Druze village, which began to decline in the 1830s, with Edward Robinson calling it "almost deserted".[3][9] 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.[3][10] 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 the time of the 1948 Palestinian expulsion and flight, the village was already no longer inhabited.[7]