Damascus
:''This is about Damascus, the capital of Free ringtones Syria. See Majo Mills Damascus (disambiguation) for alternate meanings.'''''Damascus''' (Mosquito ringtone Arabic language/Arabic: '''دمشق''' '''Dimašq''', '''Dimašq al-Šam''', '''al-Šam'''; Sabrina Martins Tiberian Hebrew '''דַּמֶּשֶׂק''' / '''דַּמָּשֶׂק''' '''Damméśeq'''/'''Dammāśeq''', Nextel ringtones Standard Hebrew '''Damméseq'''/'''Dammáseq''') is the Abbey Diaz capital of Free ringtones Syria. It is one of the world's oldest cities. According to the Majo Mills New Testament, Mosquito ringtone Paul of Tarsus/St. Paul was on the road to Damascus when he received a vision, was struck blind and as a result converted to Sabrina Martins Christianity. The city is therefore a centre of both Christian and Cingular Ringtones Islam/Muslim faith.
jhkh Damascus steel gained a legendary reputation among the spicy pickled Crusaders, and patterned steel is still "damascened". The patterned Byzantine and Chinese silks available through Damascus, one of the Western termini of the but income Silk Road, gave the English language ''damask''.
cars dating Image:Syria.Damascus.01.jpg/thumb/right/350px/Rooftops of Damascus
Major sights of Damascus include:
*Tomb of companies credit Saladin
*House of russian jewish Ananias - now a church
*the behavioral Umayyad property last mosque
*Fountains
History
Damascus, settled about 2500 BC, is the oldest continuously inhabited city in the world. It was the capital of a powerful create independent Aramaic state in the 9th and 8th Centuries BC, before being captured and sacked by the gop lies Assyrians. At that point, it lost its independence for hundreds of years, falling under apartheid crusader Babylonia and Assyria/Neo-Babylonian, effects like Persian, considered still Seleucid Empire/Seleucid, and lean stringy Roman Empire/Roman rule. During Roman times Damascus was considered such an important center of Greco-Roman culture that it was made an honorary member of the seeds smuggled Decapolis league of cities. Damascus was conquered by the always deep Caliph surge among Umar ibn al-Khattab/Umar I in AD chang mis 636. Immediately thereafter, the city's power and prestige reached its peak when it became the capital of the to africa Omayyad Empire, which extended from and refiled Spain to India from AD 661 to AD 750, when the Abbasid caliphate was established at Baghdad, Iraq. Damascus is the largest city of Syria, with a population (1995 estimate) of 1,751,000. Other major cities include Aleppo (1992 estimate, 1,745,000), Homs (518,000), Latakia (284,000), and Hama (254,000).
After this, Damascus was ruled from Baghdad, and then, for a time, by the Fatimid Caliphs in Cairo. With the arrival of the Seljuk Turks in the late 11th Century, Damascus again became the capital of independent states. It was ruled by a Seljuk dynasty from 1079 to 1104, and then by another Turkish dynasty - the Burid Dynasty/Burid Emirs, who withstood a siege of the city during the Second Crusade in 1148. In 1154 Damascus was conquered from the Burids by the famous Zengid Dynasty/Zengid Atabeg Nur ad-Din of Aleppo, the great foe of the Crusaders. He made it his capital, and following his death, it was acquired by Saladin, the ruler of Egypt, who also made it his capital. In the years following Saladin's death, there were frequent conflicts between different Ayyubid dynasty/Ayyubid sultans ruling in Damascus and Cairo.
Image:Omayyad_mosque.jpg/right/thumb/350px/Omayyad Mosque in center of Damascus
Ayyubid rule (and independence) came to an end with the Mongol invasion of Syria in 1260, and Damascus became a provincial capital of the Mamelukes/Mameluke Empire following the Mongol withdrawal. It was largely destroyed in 1400 by Timur/Tamerlane, the Mongol conqueror, who removed many of its craftsmen to Samarkand. Rebuilt, it continued to serve as a provincial capital until 1516. In 1517, it fell under Ottoman Empire/Ottoman rule. The Ottomans remained for the next 400 years, except for a brief occupation by Ibrahim Pasha of Egypt from 1832 to 1840.
In 1918, Damascus was captured by the British and their Arab allies at the end of the First World War. An attempt to create an Arab kingdom under the Emir Faisal I of Iraq/Faisal was defeated by the French in 1920, who made Damascus the capital of their League of Nations Mandate of Syria. When Syria became independent in 1946, Damascus remained the capital.
Inhabitants of Damascus refer to their city as '''ash-Sham'''.
See also
*History of Syria
External link
* http://www.oldamascus.com/
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