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30 unusual facts about Damascus


Anna Talbott McPherson

In 1945 they settled in Damascus, Ohio, where Chase completed 50 years of service within the church.

Avraham Elmalih

Born in Jerusalem, Elmalih was educated in a yeshiva and an alliance school before studying at the Archeological Institute, before working as a teacher in his home city, Istanbul, Jaffa and Damascus.

Blueberry Boat

The song "Straight Street" references the biblical "street called straight" in Damascus.

Breguet 470

It was re-engined with more powerful, 937 hp (699 kW) Gnome-Rhône 14N radials in 1937 before being entered into that year's IstresDamascus–Paris race, finishing fifth in a time of 21 hours 3 min, with de-militarised Savoia-Marchetti SM.79s bombers occupying the first three places and a de Havilland Comet racer finishing fourth.

Cinema Dimashq

Opened in Damascus, Syria, in 1943 by Toufik Chammas, a prominent local businessman, Cinema Dimashq rapidly became a local entertainment proxy, bringing Syria into the era of cinematography.

Corporate Report

A descendant of Damascus, he was sired by Private Account by breeder Equigroup Thoroughbreds.

Costa Tropical

In fact, Almuñécar served as the entry point to Iberia and establishment of a power base for Abd ar-Rahman I in 755, who came from Damascus and was the founder of an independent Muslim dynasty that ruled the greater part of Iberia for nearly three centuries thereafter.

Coutzes

The dual command had been instituted the year before by Emperor Justinian I (r. 527–565), and Coutzes led the troops stationed at Damascus, while his brother led the troops at Palmyra.

Damascus, Arkansas

Kim Hammer, Republican member of the Arkansas House of Representatives from District 28 since 2011; reared in Damascus, born in Rockford, Illinois

Damascus was the site of a nuclear "Broken Arrow" incident on September 18–19, 1980.

Damascus, Oregon

Incorporated in 2004, the city is located east of Happy Valley and Interstate 205 and west of Boring.

The initiative's passage resulted in the incorporation of the former unincorporated communities of Damascus and Carver into the City of Damascus, a step which prevents nearby cities from annexing the community.

Damascus, Virginia

Damascus is the home of the annual Trail Days festival, and is known as Trail Town USA due to the convergence of four scenic trails in the town, including the Appalachian Trail, U.S. Bicycle Route 76, The Iron Mountain Trail, and the Virginia Creeper Trail.

Ezzelino I da Romano

The son of Alberico and the grandson of the family's founder, Ecelo, in 1148 he took part in the Second Crusade along Louis VIII of France and Conrad III of Germany, fighting in Damascus and Ashkalon.

General Union of Arab Students

The headquarters of the organization are based in Damascus, Syria.

Givat HaShlosha

The kibbutz is named for the three workers from Petah Tikva who were accused of espionage during World War I (Palestine was then under the rule of the Ottoman Empire), and were sent to a prison in Damascus.

Hamat Gader

Some of the buildings were damaged by an earthquake in the 7th century and restored by the Umayyad caliph who ruled from Damascus.

Health in Syria

Almost all private health facilities are located in large urban areas such as Damascus, Aleppo, Tartus, and Latakia.

Herod Agrippa

Soon afterwards he was convicted, through the information of his brother Aristobulus, of having received a bribe from the Damascenes, who wished to purchase his influence with the proconsul, and was again compelled to flee.

Matthew 4:13

The town was prosperous due to its location on the large lake and also its position on the Via Maris, the Damascus to Egypt trade route.

Mesabi Maiden

The daughter of Cox's Ridge and Steel Maiden out of Hall of Fame Champion Damascus is probably best remembered for winning the mile and an eighth Grade II $200,000 Black-Eyed Susan Stakes at Pimlico Race Course on May 17, 1996.

Morris Jacob Raphall

In 1840, when the blood accusation was made at Damascus, he published a refutation of it in four languages (Hebrew, English, French, and German) and wrote a defense of Judaism against an anonymous writer in the London "Times." Raphall was also the author of a text-book of the post-Biblical history of the Jews (to the year 70 C.E.).

Musa bin Nusayr

The Caliph requested Musa to withdraw and to report in person to Damascus.

But according to Yaqut, Kitāb mu'jam al-buldān, the name applies to mountains which extend up the coast of Syria to Homs and across to Damascus.

Piaggio P.32

; Caproni Ca.405 Procellaria: A version built by Caproni specifically for the Istres-Damascus-Paris Air Race of 1937, but not completed in time.

Private Terms

He was the son of Private Account, who in turn was the son of the great Damascus.

Religion in Morocco

Islam reached Morocco in 680 CE, taken to the country by the Arab Umayyad dynasty of Damascus.

Scouts of Syria

During this conference, Damascus was named as headquarters of the Arab Scout Region.

She'ar Yashuv

Damascus radio and the French daily Le Monde even announced that the moshav had been captured by the Syrians.

Striking clock

A striking clock outside of China was the clock tower near the Umayyad Mosque in Damascus, Syria, which struck once every hour.


1925 Hama uprising

Tensions between the French authorities and the leaders of Jabal al-Druze began to surface from 1922 and in the mid-summer of 1925, the Druze leader Sultan Pasha al-Atrash declared an uprising against the French Mandate after the imprisonment of three prominent Druze leaders who were invited to Damascus for talks with the authorities.

Abul Hasan Ali Hasani Nadwi

He was also a member of Advisory Council of the Islamic University of Madinah al-Munawwarah, a founder member of its Supreme Council, and a member of the Academy of Arts and Letters of Damascus.

Al-Azm family

Al-Azm's era brought a building boom to Damascus where dozens of baths, khans, schools and souqs were built, many of which still remain today.

Al-Qaryatayn

In late 1104, the Seljuk prince (emir) Suqman ibn Artuq died in the town on his way to Damascus after being summoned by the ruler of that city, Zahir ad-Din Tughtekin.

Ammar Abdulhamid

Abdulhamid was born on May 30, 1966, to Syrian actress Muna Wassef and the late Syrian filmmaker Muhammad Shahin in Damascus, Syria.

Arabian Peninsula

It was a part of the Ottoman railway network and was built in order to extend the previously existing line between Istanbul and Damascus (which began from the Haydarpaşa Terminal) all the way to the holy city of Mecca (eventually being able to reach only Medina due to the interruption of the construction works caused by the outbreak of World War I).

Aubrey Abbott

He returned to World War I in 1917, and took part in the Egyptian Expeditionary Force advance to Damascus.

Battle of Kissoué

On 8 June 1941, troops of the 5th Indian Infantry Brigade Group—under Brigadier Wilfrid Lewis Lloyd—had crossed the Syrian border from the British Mandate of Palestine to take Quneitra and Deraa with the objective of opening the way for Free French forces to advance along the roads from these towns to Damascus.

Battle of La Forbie

The Battle of La Forbie, also known as the Battle of Harbiyah, was fought October 17, 1244 – October 18, 1244 between the allied armies (drawn from the Kingdom of Jerusalem, the crusading orders, the breakaway Ayyubids of Damascus, Homs and Kerak) and the Egyptian army of the Ayyubid Sultan as-Salih Ayyub, reinforced with Khwarezmian mercenaries.

Before Vanishing

The filmmaker travels from the beginning to the end of the Barada river that surrounds the capital city of Damascus.

Bengal Engineer Group

World War I: La Bassée 1914, Festubert 1914 '15, Givenchy 1914, Neuve Chapelle, Aubers, Loos, France and Flanders 1914–15, Megiddo, Sharon, Damascus, Palestine 1918, Aden, Kut al Amara 1915 '17, Ctesiphon, Defence of Kut al Amara, Tigris 1916, Baghdad, Khan Baghdadi, Sharqat, Mesopotamia 1915–18, Persia 1918, North West Frontier India 1915 '16–17, Baluchistan 1918;

Boutros Khawand

It is widely believed that he is still alive in one of the Syrian jails, most probably in Mezzeh prison or in the "Sab' Bahrat" (Seven Seas) prison (controlled by the Syrian Air Force intelligence service) in Damascus although some reports stated that he was later transferred to Tadmor prison.

Carver, Oregon

The center of Carver is located along the Clackamas River, three miles southwest of the center of Damascus, and five miles east of Clackamas.

Cerruti 1881

There are Cerruti 1881, 18CRR81 and Cerruti stores throughout the world in Milan, Cosenza, Madrid, London, Munich, Stockholm, Athens, Birmingham, Riyadh, Moscow, New York, Hong Kong, Taipei, Damascus, Jakarta, and Tokyo among other locations.

Citadel of Aleppo

Zengid ruler Imad ad-Din Zengi, followed by his son Nur ad-Din (ruled 1147–1174) successfully unified Aleppo and Damascus and held back the Crusaders from their repeated assaults on the cities.

Crescent

These include: the flags of the kings of Damascus and Lucha (yellow with a white crescent); Cairo (white with a blue crescent); Mahdia in Tunisia (white with a purple crescent); Tunis (white with a black crescent); and Buda (white with a red crescent).

Damascus Community School

Damascus Community School is an unlicensed American school founded by the former US secretary of state John Foster Dulles in 1957 in Damascus, Syria.

DOX BOX

DOX BOX, which is annual and runs in 3 Syrian cities, Damascus, Homs and Tartus, is organised by two Syrian filmmakers, Diana El Jeiroudi and Orwa Nyrabia, among others.

Fly So Free

A grandson of U.S. Racing Hall of Fame inductee Damascus, Fly So Free was owned by New York City Broadway theatre producer and music publishing company owner Tommy Valando and his wife Elizabeth.

Greeks in Syria

Today there is a Greek community of about 4,500 in Syria, most of whom have Syrian nationality and who live mainly in Aleppo, the country's main trading and financial center, and Damascus, the capital.

Harran

In its prime Harran was a major Assyrian city which controlled the point where the road from Damascus joins the highway between Nineveh and Carchemish.

Immanuel

The setting is the Syro-Ephraimite War, 734 BC, which saw Judah pitted against two northern neighbours, Israel (called Ephraim in the prophecy) and Syria (also known as Aram or Aram-Damascus or Syria-Damascus).

King Davids Peak

Like other features of the park, such as Herods Gate, Lake Salome, Solomons Jewels, Damascus Gate, the Pool of Bathesda, many features are named for places and people in the Bible.

Lynn Snodgrass

She represented District 10, which included her home town of Boring as well as Clackamas, Happy Valley, Damascus, South Gresham, Estacada, and portions of Oregon City.

Mezzeh

Compton Mackenzie later described it at the time as being "a large village standing at the junction of the road from Damascus to Beirut and Quneitra".

Mezzeh Military Airport

Mezzeh Military Airport (also spelled Mazzeh) is a Syrian Air Force installation located in Mezzeh, Damascus, Syria, south-west of the old centre of Damascus.

Mount Lebanon Emirate

In 1623, Mustafa Pasha, the new governor of Damascus, engaged him in battle, and was decisively defeated at Anjar in the Biqa Valley.

Osman Pasha

Bosniak Osman Pasha (died 1685), Ottoman governor of Egypt, Damascus, and Bosnia

Parr's Ridge

Communities along Parr's Ridge include, from south to north, Damascus, Mount Airy (where Interstate 70 crosses the ridge), Westminster, Cranberry, Manchester, and Lineboro.

Qubbat al-Khazna

Qubbat al-Khazna (Arabic: قبة الخزنة Qubbat al-Khazna), meaning the "Dome of the Treasury", is an old structure, located inside the courtyard of the Umayyad Mosque in Damascus, Syria.

Russeifa

In 1943, the world's only fossil remains of the Arambourgiania Dinasoaur discovered so far, were found by mistake near the Amman-Damascus railway.

Stefan Heidemann

Co-operation with several archaeological missions especially in Syria among them at the citadels in Aleppo, Damascus and Masyaf, urban sites such as ar-Raqqa, and Kharab Sayyar, but also in Portugal, Mongolia, and Afghanistan Balkh.

Street hierarchy

A clearer record of a stricter hierarchical order of streets appears in surviving and functioning Arabic-Islamic cities that originate in the late first millennium AD such as the Medina of Tunis, Marrakech, Fez and Damascus.

Syrian Democratic Turkmen Movement

However, the party is against a divided Syria because Syrian Turkmens live scatteredly in different cities such as Aleppo, Homs, Latakia, Azaz, Jarablus, Raqqah, Idlib, Hama and Damascus, and a parted Syria would give serious damage to the Turkmens.

Timeline of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan

His brother Abdullah moved his forces into Ma'an (then in the north of the Kingdom of Hejaz) with a view to liberating Damascus, where his brother had been proclaimed King in 1918.

University of Balamand

Formerly, it was a project at the Koura District, which North Lebanon’s department came to continue as an inter-cultural message in 1988, and to fuse under its administration the Lebanese Academy of Fine Arts (ALBA) and Saint John of Damascus Institute of Theology.