Facts about Damascus
Damascus is located in Syria
Damascus
Coordinates: 33°30′47″N 36°17′31″E / 33.51306°N 36.29194°E /
33.51306; 36.
Damascus, Virginia, is a small town in the Blue Ridge Mountains, and
is the gateway to the Mount Rogers National Recreation Area.
of Syria and of its Damascus governorate, SW Syria, on the eastern
edge of the Anti-Lebanon Mts. It is Syria's largest city and its
administrative, financial, and communications center. Damascus stands
in the oasis of Ghouta on the margins of the Syrian Desert, and is
bisected by the Barada River.
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Damascus (دمشق) is the capital of Syria and its largest city, with
about 4.5 million people.
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Established between 10,000 to 8,000BC, Damascus is credited with being
the oldest, continuously inhabited city in the world.
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Damascus is a census-designated place and an unincorporated area in
Montgomery County, Maryland, United States.
In the early part of the 20th century, there was an incorporated
municipality there for about a quarter century, but it no longer
exists.
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presumably to Damascus, Syria, and was first used in an official
document in 1816, when the United States Congress approved a postal
route through the area, operated by Edward Hughes.
Damascus pronunciation /dəˈmæs kəs/ Show Spelled
Show IPA –nouna city in and the capital of Syria, in the SW
part: reputed to be the oldest continuously existing city in the
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a city-state
Damascus n (Placename) the capital of Syria, in the
southwest: reputedly the oldest city in the world, having been
inhabited continuously since before 2000 bc Pop.: 1 394 322 (1994)
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Kareem Salama May 16 at Tishreen park theate in Damascus, at 8 pm.
citizens of Damascus, and of Syria and some other Arab neighbors,
colloquially call the city ''ash-Shām''. ''Ash-Shām'' is an Arabic
term for north and for Syria.
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kmThis hotel in Damascus is located near the monastery of the
Blessed Virgin, which contains an icon that is said to be
painted by St. Luke.
citizens of Damascus, and of Syria and some other Arab neighbors,
colloquially call the city ash-Shām. Ash-Shām is an Arabic term for
north and for Syria. (Syria — particularly historical Greater Syria —
is called Bilād ash-Shām — بلاد الشام, 'country of the north' — in
Arabic.
* Courtyard of the Great Mosque of Damascus, Syria, built by al-Walīd I, 705–715, showing …
Courtyard
of the Great Mosque of Damascus, Syria, built by al-Walīd I,
705–715, showing …
* Great Mosque of Damascus.
Great Mosque of
Damascus.