In CE 377, a sanctuary for John the Baptist was established inside a monastery at Er-Ramathiniyye.[3] The sanctuary was often visited by Ghassanids,[4] and the village had annual celebrations for the Baptist.[5]
Christians inhabited Ramthaniyye in the Roman and Byzantine eras.[6] Excavations have revealed a chapel, burial cave and sherds from the Late Roman era.[7] Christian Greek inscriptions and tombstones from the Byzantine period with Greek inscriptions have also been discovered.[8] No remains from other religious groups have been found.[6]
The village was inhabited during the Ottoman era.[9]Gottlieb Schumacher visited the site in the 1880s and documented crosses, ornaments and Greek inscriptions.[10] Schumacher noted that the Sabarjah, a branch of the Nu'aym tribe, had 25 tents pitched around the village.[10]
After Israel occupied the area in the Six-Day War, they began destroying Syrian villages in the Golan Heights.[11][12] Ramthaniyye was destroyed in 1967.[13] The population before the war was 1304.[13]
Sulimani, Gideon; Kletter, Raz (2022). "Settler-Colonialism and the Diary of an Israeli Settler in the Golan Heights: The Notebooks of Izhaki Gal". Journal of Holy Land and Palestine Studies. 21 (1). Edinburgh University Press: 48–71. doi:10.3366/hlps.2022.0283. ISSN2054-1988.
