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  Damascus - Biocrawler   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Damascus is surrounded by an oasis, the Ghuta (الغوطة), watered by the Barada.
Damascus became a metropolis by the beginning of the second century and in 222 it was upgraded to a colonia by the Emperor Septimius Severus.
Damascus was conquered by the Caliph Umar I in AD Immediately thereafter, the city's power and prestige reached its peak when it became the capital of the Omayyad Empire, which extended from Spain to India from AD 661 to AD 750, when the Abbasid caliphate was established at Baghdad.
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 Damascus - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
Damascus is designated as having been part of the ancient province of Amurru in the Hyksos Kingdom, from 1720 to 1570 BC.
Damascus is surrounded by an oasis, the Ghouta (الغوطة al-ġūṭä), watered by the Barada.
The hanging of a number of patriotic intellectuals by Jamal Pasha, governor of Damascus, in Beirut and Damascus in 1915 and 1916 further stoked nationalist feeling, and in 1918, as the forces of the Arab Revolt and the British army approached, residents fired on the retreating Turkish troops.
www.arikah.com /encyclopedia/Damascus   (3302 words)

  
 Damascus   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Damascus is surrounded by an oasis, the Ghouta (الغوطة), watered by the Barada.
In 1400 by Timurlank, the Mongol conqueror, besieged Damascus.
On 21 September, the Mamluk governor of Damascus fled the city, and on 2 October the khutba in the Umayyad mosque was pronounced in the name of Selim I.
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 iqexpand.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Damascus was conquered by the Caliph Umar I in AD Immediately thereafter, the city's power and prestige reached its peak when it became the capital of the Omayyad Empire, which extended from Spain to India from AD 661 to AD 750, when the Abbasid caliphate was established at Baghdad, Iraq.
Damascus is situated on a plateau 690 metres above sea level, bordered by the Anti-Lebanon Mountains to the west, and the desert to the east.
Damascus lies in the Ghutah oasis, and is fed with water by...
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 Damascus   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Damascus is the capital city of Syria and one of the world's oldest cities.
Damascus, settled about 2500 BC, is the oldest continuously inhabited city in the world.
During Roman times Damascus was considered such an important center of Greco-Roman culture that it was made an honorary member of the Decapolis league of cities.
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 Syria - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
Syria is significant in the history of Christianity; Paul was converted on the Road to Damascus and established the first organized Christian Church at Antioch in ancient Syria (now in Turkey), from which he left on many of his missionary journeys.
Damascus, a city that has been inhabited as early as 8,000 to 10,000 BC, is known to be one of the oldest continuously inhabited cities in the world (along with Varanasi, Aleppo and Jericho).
Aramaic, the lingua franca of the region before the advent of Islam and Arabic, is spoken among certain ethnic groups: as Syriac, it is used as the liturgical language of various Syriac denominations; modern Aramaic (particularly, Turoyo language and Assyrian Neo-Aramaic) is spoken in Al-Jazira region.
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 Damascus Homes
Damascus steel, also known as ''Damascened steel'', is a type of steel alloy that is both strong and malleable, a material that is perfect for the building of swords.
In general, notably during the era of Damascus steel, one could produce an alloy that was strong and brittle at one extreme by adding up to 2% carbon, or soft and malleable at the other, with about 0.5% carbon.
He was born and raised in Damascus but died (in all probability) at the monastery of Mar Saba, southeast of Jerusalem.
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 Damascus info here at en.comedyrecords.info   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
The Damascus-Tehran Axis pushes Israel to Large Scale Conflict The initial Hezbollah attack on Northern Israel three days ago was an effort on the part of the Damascus-Tehran axis to reconfigure their influence in Lebanon.
Damascus Hot Potato It would be very helpful of Assad to flee Damascus at that point,...
Damascus From the Muslim conquest to the Fatimids
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 Home > Hillsborough, CA, California Yellow Pages, Classifieds, Real Estate, Business, Schools, Library and Jobs   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Damascus (Arabic: دمشق‎ ​ transliterated: Dimashq Also commonly: الشام ash-Shām) is the capital and largest city of Syria.
Founded approximately 2500 BCE, it is thought to be the oldest continuously-inhabited city in the world, before Al Fayyum, and Gaziantep.
Damascus is designated as having been part of the ancient province of Amurru in the sos" title="Hyksos">Hyksos Kingdom, from 1720 to 1570 BC.
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 BrainDex the knowledge source - Free Online Encyclopedia - Barada   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
The Barada (Arabic بردى) is the main river of Damascus, the capital city of Syria.
It flows from the spring of `Ayn Fijah (عين فجة), about 27 km north west of Damascus in the Anti-Lebanon Mountains.
The Barada descends through a steep, narrow gorge before it arrives at Damascus, where it divides into seven branches that irrigate the oasis of Ghuta (الغوطة).he:ברדה?
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 Syria:
It came under Muslim rule in A.D. Immediately thereafter, the city's power and prestige reached its peak, and it became the capital of the Umayyad Empire, which extended from Spain to the borders of Central Asia from A.D. 661 to A.D. 750, when the Abbasid caliphate was established at Baghdad, Iraq.
Its leaders hoped to maintain a large degree of autonomy within independent Syria and preferred that the Syrian government establish a loose federation of states to unite the country, rather than a heavily centralized government, which Shukri al-Quwatli insisted on.
Failing to undermine support among the Druze for their traditional leaders, Shukri al-Quwatli was forced to sign a truce with the Atrash clan when the 1948 war broke out.
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 Syria Encyclopedia Articles @ EconomyTrader.com (Economy Trader)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Immediately thereafter, the city's power and prestige reached its peak, and it became the capital of the Umayyad Empire, which extended from Spain to the borders of Central Asia from A.D. 661 to A.D. 750, when the Abbasid caliphate was established at Baghdad, Iraq.
The president, approved by referendum for a 7-year term, also is Secretary General of the Ba'ath Party and leader of the National Progressive Front.
Most remarkably, Western Neo-Aramaic is still spoken in the village of Ma`loula, and two neighbouring villages, 35 miles (56 km) northeast of Damascus.
www.economytrader.com /encyclopedia/Syria   (5640 words)

  
 Damascus - The real meaning from Timesharetalk wikipedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Damascus - The real meaning from Timesharetalk wikipedia
The English name for Damascus is taken from the Greek ?aµas???, via Latin.
Damascus is surrounded by an oasis, the Ghouta (??????
www.timesharetalk.co.uk /information.asp?k=Damascus   (3244 words)

  
 This article is about the Saudi city of Medina For...
Even when Islamic rule was established Medina remained for some years the most important city of Islam and the de facto capital of the Caliphate Caliphate.
Under the first four Caliphs, known as the Righteous Caliphs, the Islamic empire expanded rapidly and came to include centres of learning such as Jerusalem, Ctesiphon Ctesiphon, and Damascus Damascus.
After the death of Ali Ali, the fourth caliph, Mu'awiyya Mu'awiyya transferred the capital to Damascus Damascus and the importance of Medina dwindled and became of a religious more than a political nature.
www.biodatabase.de /Medina   (539 words)

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