Jarmaq, Palestine
Jarmaq, also Khirbet Rom, was a village in the northern Galilee, near Safed, situated at the lower, western ridge of Mount Meron, overlooking the Sea of Galilee. 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.SWP found "traces of ruins around this village".
Ottoman era
In the 1596 tax records, it was named as a village, Jarmaq, in the Ottoman nahiya of Jira, part of Safad Sanjak, with a population of 79 households and 12 bachelors, all Muslims. The villagers paid taxes on goats, "occasional revenues", in addition to a fixed sum of 8,000; a total of 9,050 akçe.Jarmaq was a Druze village, which began to decline in the 1830s, with Edward Robinson calling it "almost deserted". 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. 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. By the time of the 1948 Palestinian expulsion and flight, the village was already no longer inhabited.