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Damascus is the capital of Syria and its second largest city after Aleppo. Damascus has about 1,710,000 residents. Mapcarta, the open map.
Damascus is old, founded in the 3rd millennium BC; it is one of the oldest cities in the world, continuously inhabited for thousands of years. Temple of Jupiter in Damascus, the remains of the third-century Roman temple and a Byzantine church form now the entrance to the Al-Hamidiyah Souq, the largest souq (bazaar) in Syria.
Damascus is the capital and largest city of Syria, the oldest current capital in the world and, according to some, the fourth holiest city in Islam. Known colloquially in Syria as aš-Šām (الشَّام) and dubbed, poetically, the "City of Jasmine", Damascus is a major cultural center of the Levant and the Arab world.
2 days ago · Syria, country located on the east coast of the Mediterranean Sea in southwestern Asia. The capital is Damascus. Find a geographical and historical treatment of Syria, including maps, statistics, and a survey of its people, economy, and government, in this article.
Damascus ( دمشق transliteration: Dimashq, also commonly known as al-Shām) is the capital and largest city of Syria. It is thought to be among the oldest continuously inhabited cities in the world. Its current population is estimated at about 4.5 million. The city is a governorate (administrative district) by itself, and the capital of the ...
Damascus, Syria. Damascus , Arabic Dimashq , City (pop., 2004: 1,614,500), capital of Syria. Located at an oasis at the base of the Anti-Lebanon Mountains, it has been an important population centre since antiquity. Believed to be among the world’s oldest continuously inhabited cities, it has evidence of occupation from the 4th millennium bce.
This is the bargain that Damascus and Syria made: live under an iron fist in exchange for a social safety net and a space for religious and cultural, if not political, pluralism. Then Syrians took ...
