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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.by Jerzy Strzelecki, GFDL or CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commonsby Jan Smith, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commonsby Steven Damron, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia CommonsElevation: 693 m
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World Heritage Site
Date of Inscription
1979
Seventh Millennium BC
Neolithic
Mixed
Mixed Monuments
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