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| | CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Damascus |
 | | It soon became, next to Antioch, the most important city of Syria. |
 | | From 112 to 85 B.C. it was the capital of a little Graeco-Roman kingdom, but fell successively into the power of Aretas III, King of Petra, of Tigranes, King of Armenia, and finally of the Roman general Metellus. |
 | | In 64 B.C. Pompey received there the ambassadors and gifts of the neighbouring kings; in the following year Syria became a Roman province. |
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