Ramiyah, Bint Jbeil

Ramiyah (Arabic: رامية) is a municipality in the Bint Jbeil District in southern Lebanon.

[1] In the 1596 tax records, it was named as a village, Ramiya, in the Ottoman nahiya (subdistrict) of Tibnin under the liwa' (district) of Safad, with a population of 49 households and 4 bachelors, all Muslim.

The villagers paid a fixed tax-rate of 25% on agricultural products, such as wheat, barley, olive trees, fruit trees, goats and beehives, in addition to "occasional revenues" and a press for olive oil or grape syrup; a total of 3,966 akçe.

"[4] In 1875, Victor Guérin found here a great sarcophagus cut in an enormous block, the lower part not yet detached from the rock, containing three receptacles for bodies.

[5] In 1881, the PEF's Survey of Western Palestine (SWP) described it: "A small stone village, containing about 150 Moslems, situated on a hill-top in the valley, with a few figs, olives, and arable land; the valley to the west turns into a swamp in winter, owing to having no drainage; there are cisterns and a large birket for water supply.