Jarmaq
Jarmaq is a municipality in the Jezzine District in southern Lebanon, located southeast of the capital Beirut. It has an altitude of. Its land area is 448 hectares. The village is a predominantly Maronite and Sunni settlement.
History
The Syrian geographer Yaqut al-Hamawi mentioned that 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.In the 1596 tax records, it was named as a village, Jarman, in the Ottoman nahiya 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.
Following the 1982 invasion 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.