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Damascus: A History
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Damascus: A History Hardcover - 2005

by Ross Burns


From the publisher

This is the first book in English to relate the history of Damascus, bringing out the crucial role the city has played at many points in the region's past. Damascus traces the history of this colourful, significant and complex city through its physical development, from the city's emergence in around 7000 BC through the changing cavalcade of Aramaean, Persian, Greek, Roman, Byzantine, Arab, Mongol and French rulers right up to the end of Turkish control in 1918. In Damascus, every layer of the history has built precisely on top of its predecessors for at least three millennia, leaving a detailed archaeological record of one of the oldest continuously inhabited cities in the world. The book looks particularly at the interplay between the western and eastern influences that have provided Damascus with such a rich past, and how this perfectly encapsulates the forces that have played over the Middle East as a whole from the earliest recorded times to the present. Lavishly illustrated, Damascus: A History is a compelling and unique exploration of a fascinating city.

Details

  • Title Damascus: A History
  • Author Ross Burns
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Pages 408
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Routledge
  • Date January 20, 2005
  • Illustrated Yes
  • ISBN 9780415271059 / 0415271053
  • Weight 1.82 lbs (0.83 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.48 x 6.32 x 0.94 in (24.08 x 16.05 x 2.39 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Damascus (Syria) - History
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2004009857
  • Dewey Decimal Code 956.914

About the author

Ross Burns has recently retired from the Australian Foreign Service after assignments which included several countries of the eastern Mediterranean, including Syria. Currently pursuing his archaeological and historical interests fulltime, he is the author of Monuments of Syria, the first modern study of that country's rich archaeological heritage.