Damascus : a History /

Damascus : a History /

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Main Author: Burns, Ross (Author)

Format: Book

Language: English

Published: London : Routledge, 2007.

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Damascus (Syria) > History.

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Call Number: DS99 .D3 B867 2007

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Table of Contents:
  • Part 1. 1. The emergence of Damascus (9000-1100 BC) 2. Dimashqu - Damascus from the Aramaeans to the Persians (1000-532 BC) 3. A greater game - Assyrians, Persians, Greeks (732-300 BC) 4. The sowing of Hellenism - Ptolemies and Seleucids (300-64 BC) 5. Pax Romana (64 BC-AD 30) 6. Metropolis Romana (AD 30-268) 7. Holding the line (AD 269-610) 8. 'Farewell Oh Syria' (611-750) 9. The Umayyads (661-750) Part 2. Preface: When did the ancient end? 10. Decline, confusion and irrelevance (750-1098) 11. Islam resurgent (1098-1174) 12. Saladin and the Ayyubids (1174-1250) 13. Mamluks (1260-1515) 14. The Ottoman centuries (1516-1840) 15. Reform and revitalisation (1840-1918)