Aaramta

Aaramta عرمتى Aramta
Aaramta Location in Lebanon
Coordinates: LB 33°27′49.98″N 35°34′35.32″E / 33.4638833°N 35.5764778°E / 33.4638833; 35.5764778
Grid position	134/169 L
Country	Lebanon
Governorate	South Governorate
District	Jezzine District
Time zone	EET (UTC+2)
• Summer (DST)	+3 (UTC)

Aaramta (عرمتى) is a village in the Jezzine District in southern Lebanon.

History

In the 1596 tax records, it was named as a village, 'Aramta, in the Ottoman nahiya (subdistrict) of Sagif under the liwa' (district) of Safad, with a population of 14 households, all Muslim. The villagers paid a fixed tax-rate of 25% on agricultural products, such as wheat, barley, fruit trees, goats and beehives, in addition to "occasional revenues"; a total of 1,355 akçe.^[1]^[2]

References

↑ Hütteroth and Abdulfattah, 1977, p. 186
↑ Note that Rhode, 1979, p. 6 writes that the register that Hütteroth and Abdulfattah studied was not from 1595/6, but from 1548/9

Bibliography

Hütteroth, Wolf-Dieter; Abdulfattah, Kamal (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.
Rhode, Harold (1979). Administration and Population of the Sancak of Safed in the Sixteenth Century. Columbia University.

External links

Aaramta, Localiban

Jezzine District, South Governorate

Capital: Jezzine

Towns and villages	Aaramta Aishiya Al Rihan Aray Azour Bteddine El Loqch Jarmaq Mazraat el-Btadiniye Srayra

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