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xx, 386 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
The emergence of Damascus (9000-1100 BC) -- Dimashqu : Damascus from the Aramaeans to the Persians 1000-532 BC) -- A greater game : Assyrians, Persians, Greeks (732-300 BC) -- The sowing of Hellenism : Ptolemies and Seleucids (300-64 BC) -- Pax Romana (64 BC-AD 30) -- Metropolis Romana (AD 30-268) -- Holding the line (AD 269-610) -- 'Farewell oh Syria' (611-750) -- The Umayyads (661-750) -- Decline, confusion and irrelevance (750-1098) -- Islam resurgent (1098-1174) -- Saladin and the Ayyubids (1174-1250) -- Mamluks (1260-1515) -- The Ottoman centuries (1516-1840) -- Reform and revitalisation (1840-1918).
Includes bibliographical references (pages 325-359) and index.