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 (d. 1226) 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 (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.Hütteroth and Abdulfattah, 1977, p. 185Note that Rhode, 1979, p.6 writes that the register that Hütteroth and Abdulfattah studied was not from 1595/6, but from 1548/9.
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.Middle East International No 423, 17 April 1992, Publishers Lord Mayhew, Dennis Walters MP; Gerald Butt p.12
Demographics In 2014, Christians made up 74.73% and Muslims made up 25.05% of registered voters in Jarmaq. 65.12% of the voters were Maronite Catholics and 20.30% were Sunni Muslims.
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External links Jarmaq, Localiban