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  • Ancient City of Damascus

  • Ancient City of Damascus

    Damascus is the capital and the second-largest city of Syria. Damascus was a part of the ancient province of Amurru in the Hyksos Kingdom, from 1720 to 1570 BC, and it was chosen as the capital of the Umayyad Caliphate from 661 to 750 AD. The ancient city was inscribed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1979.
    The site is one of the elements that make up the UNESCO World Heritage site, Ancient City of Damascus.
    World Heritage Site
    Ancient City of Damascus
    by Jerzy Strzelecki, GFDL or CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
    Ancient City of Damascus
    by Jan Smith, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
    Ancient City of Damascus
    by Steven Damron, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
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    Ancient City of Damascus

    World Heritage Site

    Date of Inscription

    1979

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    Historic Cities and Regions

    Location

    Syria

    Damascus

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    Seventh Millennium BC

    Neolithic

    Mixed

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    Mixed Monuments

     

     

     

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