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1. www.britannica.com › place › DamascusDamascus | History, Map, Population, & Facts | Britannica

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   5 days ago · Damascus, city, capital of Syria. Located in the southwestern corner of the country, it has been called the ‘pearl of the East,’ praised for its beauty and lushness. It is unclear when the ancient city was founded, but evidence has been found showing that an urban center in the area existed in the 4th millennium BCE.

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3. www.cbc.ca › news › canadaAuthor, activist Danny Ramadan hopes his memoir will change ...

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   1 hour ago · Danny Ramadan arrived in Vancouver in September 2014, having left his home in Damascus, Syria, as a 30-year-old man in search of safety amid an escalating war in his home country.

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   2 days ago · In August 2013, a chemical attack using sarin gas was perpetrated in Syria’s Ghouta region, northeast of Damascus, killing some 1,400 people. Attributed to the regime of Bashar al-Assad, the ...

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   What is damascus steel?

   • Damascus steel’s number one requirement, for instance, is a very high carbon content. Modern steel contains about 1% carbon, which increases the hardness and strength of the alloy. Damascus steel contains between 1% and 2% carbon, according to an analysis conducted by metallurgists at Stanford University in the 1980s.

   Damascus steel: the forgotten metal used to forge some of the world's

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   What is Damascus known for?

   • It is colloquially known in Syria as aš-Šām and titled the City of Jasmine. Damascus is a major cultural center of the Levant and the Arab world. The city has an estimated population of 1,711,000 as of 2009. Located in south-western Syria, Damascus is the center of a large metropolitan area of 2.7 million people.

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   Is Damascus the capital of Syria?

   • The capital of the Empire is Damascus, which is also the capital of the Kingdom of Syria, as opposed to actually being in the Kingdom of Arabia, which has it's capital Medina, which itself is located in the Duchy of Medina, whose capital is Mecca. Meanwhile the Duchy of Arabia is off crying in the corner. That's an excellent resource.

   How to determine de jure capitals? : r/CrusaderKings - reddit

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6. www.washingtonpost.com › world › 2024/05/28First Syrian jet in over a decade transports Muslim ...

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   5 days ago · DAMASCUS, Syria — For the first time in over a decade, 270 Syrians traveled on a direct flight early Tuesday from Damascus to Saudi Arabia for the annual Islamic Hajj pilgrimage, the Syrian ...

7. www.theweek.in › news › worldDid Israel offer Iran a 'compromise in Gaza' to avoid ...

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   3 days ago · Israel's attack on the Iranian Embassy in Damascus, Syria, had pushed West Asia to the edge after Iran retaliated by sending explosive drones and missiles to Israel, its first direct attack on Israeli territory. Israel is yet to respond to the report. Houthis get 'Ghadr'

8. apnews.com › article › syria-saudi-arabia-hajj-islamFirst Syrian jet in over a decade transports Muslim ...

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   5 days ago · The development is part of an ongoing thaw in relations between Damascus and Riyadh, which days ago appointed Saudi Arabia’s first ambassador to war-torn Syria since severing ties in 2012. Syria was readmitted to the 22-member Arab League in 2023, after it had been suspended from the group for more than a decade over President Bashar Assad’s brutal crackdown on anti-government protesters in 2011.

9. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Umayyad_CaliphateUmayyad Caliphate - Wikipedia

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   2 days ago · Damascus fell to the Abbasids in April, and in August, Marwan was killed in Egypt. [citation needed] Some Umayyads in Syria continued to resist the takeover. The Umayyad princes Abu Muhammad al-Sufyani, al-Abbas ibn Muhammad, and Hashim ibn Yazid launched revolts in Syria and the Islamic–Byzantine frontier around late 750, but they were defeated.