Aj-Jarmaq

Aj-Jarmaq
الجرمق
Municipality
Aj-Jarmaq is located in Lebanon
Aj-Jarmaq
Aj-Jarmaq
Location in Lebanon
Coordinates: 33°23′11″N 35°32′06″E / 33.38639°N 35.53500°E / 33.38639; 35.53500
Grid position130/161 L
Country Lebanon
GovernorateSouth Governorate
DistrictJezzine District
Elevation
1,280 ft (390 m)
Time zoneUTC+2 (EET)
 • Summer (DST)+3

Aj-Jarmaq (الجرمق) is a municipality 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]

History

The Syrian geographer Yaqut al-Hamawi (d. 1226) mentioned that Aj-Jarmaq was a district of Safed and the site of an ancient town by the same name. Yaqut notes a Hebrew tribe was called after the town.[3]

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.[4][5]

Aj-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. Aj-Jarmaq is the ancestral village of the eponymous Jarmaqani family resident in modern Salkhad, al-Qurayya and Urman.[1] In modern times, the village is a predominantly Maronite and Sunni settlement.[6]

Following the 1982 invasion Aj-Jarmaq became part of the Israeli Security Zone. On 5 April 1992 Israeli soldiers shot dead two guerillas planting a roadside bomb in Al-Jarmaq. Five Israeli soldiers had been killed in first 14 weeks of 1992.[7]

Demographics

In 2014, Christians made up 74.73% and Muslims made up 25.05% of registered voters in Aj-Jarmaq. 65.12% of the voters were Maronite Catholics and 20.30% were Sunni Muslims.[8]

References

  1. ^ a b c d Firro 1992, p. 167.
  2. ^ "Jarmaq". Localliban. 6 July 2007. Retrieved 30 September 2020.
  3. ^ Strange 1890, p. 462.
  4. ^ Hütteroth and Abdulfattah, 1977, p. 185
  5. ^ 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.
  6. ^ "التوزيع حسب المذاهب للناخبين/ناخبات في بلدة الجرمق، قضاء جزين محافظة الجنوب في لبنان". إعْرَفْ لبنان. Retrieved 2024-11-14.
  7. ^ Middle East International No 423, 17 April 1992, Publishers Lord Mayhew, Dennis Walters MP; Gerald Butt p.12
  8. ^ "التوزيع حسب المذاهب للناخبين/ناخبات في بلدة الجرمق، قضاء جزين محافظة الجنوب في لبنان". إعْرَفْ لبنان.

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