Damascus
Capital and largest city of SyriaDamascus 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.
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Aram-Damascus
Ancient Aramean state to 732 BCE
Markaz Rif Dimashq District
District in Rif Dimashq, Syria
State of Damascus
Former state in the French Mandate of Syria
Damascus Governorate
Governorate in Syria
Salimiyya Madrasa
Ottoman school in Damascus, Syria
Arab Kingdom of Syria
1919–1920 self-proclaimed state
Syria vilayet
First-level administrative division of the Ottoman Empire
Timeline of Damascus