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  title info:
    title: Damascus
    sub title: a history
  name:
    name part: Burns, Ross
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    date issued: 2019
    edition: Second edition.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xvii, 420 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
  abstract: Damascus, first published in 2005, was the first book in English to relate the history of the city, bringing out the crucial role it has played at many points in the region's past. It traced 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. Now updated to place the city in the context of the events of the Syrian conflict post-2011, and to include the most recent scholarship on the long history of the city, this volume is a must-read for anyone interested in Syrian history and archaeology, and an ideal partner to Burns' Aleppo (Routledge, 2016). Lavishly illustrated, Damascus: A History remains a compelling and unique exploration of this fascinating city.
  table of contents: The emergence of Damascus (9000 -- c1000 BC) -- Dimashqu : Damascus from the Aramaeans to the Assyrians (c1000 -- 732 BC) -- A greater game : Assyrians, Persians, Greeks (732-300 BC) -- The sowing of Hellenism : Ptolemies and Seleucids (300-64 BC) -- Towards a Pax Romana (64 BC-AD 30) -- Metropolis Romana (AD 30-268) -- Holding the line (AD 269-610) -- 'Farewell oh Syria' (611-661) -- The Umayyads (661-750) -- Decline, confusion and irrelevance (750-1098) -- Islam resurgent (1098-1174) -- Saladin and the Ayyubids (1174-1250) -- Mamluks (1250-1515) -- The Ottoman centuries (1516-1840) -- Reform and revitalisation (1840-1918) -- Epilogue : Countdown to Catastrophe (1919-2011)
  note: Ross Burns.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages [357]-395) and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: a-sy---
  subject:
    geographic: Damascus (Syria)
    topic: History
  classification: DS99.D3 B867 2019
  classification: 956.91/44
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Cities of the ancient world
  identifier: 9781138483323
  identifier: 113848332X
  identifier: 9781138483354
  identifier: 1138483354
  identifier: 9781351055222
  identifier: 9781351055208 (ePub ebook)
  identifier: 9781351055215 (PDF ebook)
  identifier: 9781351055192 (Mobipocket ebook)
  identifier: 2018034599
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 180725
    record change date: 20191021074630.0
    record identifier: in00004073433