Damascus

Dimashq (دمشق), commonly known as Damascus, is the capital of Syria and one of the oldest continuously inhabited cities in the world. The wider Damascus basin has evidence of prehistoric settlement, including Tell Ramad. Damascus has no single securely documented founding date.Damascus developed from settlement in the Barada basin into a major Aramean capital in the first millennium BCE. Roman and Byzantine rule left enduring urban, religious and architectural layers. After the Muslim conquest, Damascus became the capital of the…