Jarmaq
Sign in to saveJarmaq () 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.
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It sits within the topics History of the Druze, Maronite Christian communities in Lebanon and Populated places in Jezzine District.
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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.
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