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Jarmaq (Arabic: الجرمق) 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

Jarmaq was a Druze village, which began to decline in the 1830s, with Edward Robinson calling it "almost deserted". In 1877 it was described as "a small, half-ruined village of stone" with thirty Druze inhabitants. 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.

References

1. ^ Firro 1992, p. 167.

Bibliography

• 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.

• Druze communities
• Populated places disestablished in the 1880s