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Damascus is surrounded by the Ghouta, irrigated farmland where many vegetables, cereals, and fruits have been farmed since ancient times. Maps of Roman Syria indicate that the Barada River emptied into a lake of some size east of Damascus. Today it is called Bahira Atayba, the hesitant lake because in years of severe drought, it does not even ...
Rukneddine, Rukn ad-Din or Rukn al-Din (Arabic: رُكْن ٱلدِّين, romanized: Rukn ad-Dīn) is a municipality of Damascus, Syria. In the CBS 2004 census, it had a population of 92,646. [ 2 ] It is the historic Kurdish quarter of the city.
The mountain was heavily entrenched with Syrian government forces from the start of the Syrian Civil War, as it was a strategic site in the battle for the outskirts of Damascus. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] A network of tunnels was dug into the mountain by the Syrian Arab Army to serve as a garrison for the Republican Guard and was also used as firing positions ...
The Damascus Straight Street c. 1900. Straight Street, from the Latin Via Recta (Arabic: الشارع المستقيم al-Shāriʿ al-Mustaqīm), known as the Street called Straight (Greek: τὴν ῥύμην τὴν καλουμένην εὐθεῖαν) in the New Testament, is the old decumanus maximus, the main east-west Roman road, of Damascus, Syria. [1]
Map of Damascus in 1855. The old city of Damascus (Arabic: دِمَشْق ٱلْقَدِيمَة, romanized: Dimašq al-Qadīmah) is the historic city centre of Damascus, Syria. The old city, which is one of the oldest continuously inhabited cities in the world, [1] contains numerous archaeological sites, including some historical churches and ...
Administratively, Damascus Governorate, one of Syria's 14 governorates, is divided into 16 municipalities (Arabic: بلدية, romanized: baladiyah).Every municipal district is managed by an elected mayor, which in turn is divided into 95 districts (Arabic: الحي hayy), [1] each headed by a mayor, and they all participate in the election of the Damascus city council. [2]
Map all coordinates using OpenStreetMap. Download coordinates as: KML; GPX (all coordinates) ... Streets in Damascus (1 C, 4 P) Pages in category "Geography of Damascus"
Bab Tuma (Arabic: بَابُ تُومَا, romanized: Bāb Tūmā, meaning: "Gate of Thomas") is a neighborhood located in the Old city of Damascus in Syria. It is one of the seven gates of Damascus, a geographic landmark of Christianity.