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Jarmo (Qal'at Jarmo) is an archeological site located in Southern Kurdistan (northern Iraq) on the foothills of Zagros Mountains east of Kirkuk city. It was one of the oldest agricultural communities in the world, dating back to 7090 BCE. Jarmo is broadly contemporary with such other important Neolithic sites such as Jericho in the southern Levant and Çatal Hüyük in Anatolia. The site of Jarmo is approximately three to four acres (12,000 to 16,000 m²) in size and lies at an altitude of 800 meters above sea level in a belt of oak and pistachio woodlands.
Jarmo is a two-player abstract strategy board game. According to Tartarian and Polish legend, Batu Khan, the grandson of Genghis Khan, carried this game (or a variant of it) around during his military campaigns. Supposedly, he would play at least one game before a battle in order to prepare himself. In this game, a player attempts to place as many of their pieces onto the other player's first row. At the same time, the player tries to capture as many of the other player's pieces on the way.
A Jarmo variant called Jasir is played in parts of Poland, and in some eastern European countries. In fact, several variants of Jarmo and Jasir exist, but they are all fundamentally similar. Jasir means "archer" in Tartar, and the pieces used in the game are called archers. The games are sometimes collectively referred to as Halma. However, Jarmo and Jasir are not related to the Halma family of games which include Halma, Chinese Checkers, Conspirateurs, Ugolki, and Salta.
An interesting aspect of Jarmo and Jasir is that the board is asymmetric. Each player has a different view of the game from their side of the board. The lines connecting the holes are not the same for each side of the board. To make the game more fair, it is suggested that players play two games and switch sides in between. As a note, most board games have a symmetric board.
The following rules are described for Jarmo only. Please see the article for Jasir for its rules.
Jarmo is a masculine Finnish given name. Notable people with the name include:
- Jarmo Ahjupera (born 1984), Estonian football player
- Jarmo Alatensiö (1963–2003), football player
- Jarmo Hakala (born 1954), Olympic canoer
- Jarmo Hyttinen, actor
- Jarmo Jokila (born 1986), ice hockey player
- Jarmo Kekäläinen (born 1966), ice hockey player
- Jarmo Koski (born 1951), actor
- Jarmo Kytölehto (born 1961), rally driver
- Jarmo Kärnä (born 1958), long jumper
- Jarmo Lampela (born 1964), film director
- Jarmo Lehtinen (born 1969), rally co-driver
- Jarmo Lehtinen, sports commentator
- Jarmo Manninen (born 1951), football player
- Jarmo Matikainen (born 1960), football manager
- Jarmo Myllys (born 1965), ice hockey goaltender
- Jarmo Mäkinen (born 1958), actor
- Jarmo Puolakanaho, guitar player
- Jarmo Saastamoinen (born 1967), football player
- Jarmo Sandelin (born 1967), Swedish-Finn professional golfer
- Jarmo Savolainen (1961–1969), jazz pianist
- Jarmo Valtonen (born 1982), speed skater
- Jarmo Viteli, academic
- Jarmo Wasama (1943–1966), ice hockey player
- Jarmo Övermark (born 1955), Olympic wrestler