Damascus
Subtitle: a history
By: Ross Burns.
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2005
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 386
Subjects: Damascus (Syria) -- History.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Roads to Damascus; title: The emergence of Damascus, 9000-1100 BC; title: Dimashqu : Damascus from the Aramaeans to the Persians, 1000-532 BC; title: A greater game : Assyrians, Persians, Greeks, 732-300 BC; title: The sowing of Hellenism : Ptolemies and Seleucids, 300-64 BC; title: Pax Romana, 64 BC-AD 30; title: Metropolis Romana, AD 30-268; title: Holding the line, AD 269-610; title: 'Farewell, oh Syria', 611-750; title: The Umayyads, 661-750; title: Decline, confusion and irrelevance, 750-1008; title: Islam resurgent, 1098-1174; title: Saladin and the Ayyubids, 1174-1250; title: Mamluks 1260-1515; title: The Ottoman centuries, 1516-1840; title: Reform and reaction, 1840-1918.