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Map of Damascus in 1855 View of Damascus, 1898. 965 BCE – Ezron, King of Aram-Zobah conquers Damascus; 843 BCE – Hazael assassinated Ben-Hadad I and made himself king of Damascus. [1] 732 BCE – Neo-Assyrian Empire conquers Damascus; 572 BCE – Neo-Babylonians conquered Damascus; 538 BCE – Achaemenid Empire annexes Damascus
The Battle of the Dog River was fought in 1100 between Crusader forces and the Seljuk Turks near the Nahr al-Kalb river in what is now modern day Lebanon. The Crusaders were led by Baldwin of Boulogne, who had been the Count of Edessa while the Turks were led by Duqaq of Damascus.
Battle of Nahr al-Kalb (1100) In 1100, Duqaq ambushed Baldwin I of Edessa at Nahr al-Kalb, outside Beirut, while the latter was on his way to Jerusalem to succeed his brother Godfrey of Bouillon as king. Baldwin's men held a narrow pass and Duqaq's troops were not able to break through. Baldwin was victorious and continued on to Jerusalem.
Ottoman Rule in Damascus, 1708–1758. Princeton: Princeton University Press. ISBN 9781400853205. Burns, Ross (2007), Damascus: A History, Routledge, ISBN 9781134488490; Saliba, Najib E. (1978). "The Achievements of Midhat Pasha as Governor of the Province of Syria, 1878–1880". International Journal of Middle East Studies. 9 (3): 307– 323.
1200 to 732 BC – Aramaean Kingdom of Aram-Damascus; 1190 BC – Hattusha, capital of the Hittites, taken by the Sea Peoples; 1184 BC – Fall of Troy according to Eratosthenes’ calculations. [12] 1180 to 700 BC – Neo-Hittite kingdoms also known as Syro-Hittite states; 1155 BC – Babylon taken by Elamites; 1100 to 539 BC – Neo-Elamite ...
History of the city of Damascus — in the Damascus Governorate, central Syria. Subcategories. This category has the following 7 subcategories, out of 7 total. A.
The first United Arab Emirates ambassador to Damascus in nearly 13 years took up his post on Tuesday as Syria has been reintegrating into mainstream regional acceptance. Syrian state media said ...
The History of Damascus (Arabic: تاريخ دمشق, romanized: Tarikh Dimashq) is a major classical Islamic encyclopedic work and is considered the largest biographical dictionary produced in history by a medieval Muslim historian, Ibn Asakir.