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Damascus : a history / Ross Burns.
Publication details: London ; New York : Routledge, 2007, 2005.Edition: 1st pbk. edDescription: xx, 386 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cmISBN:- 9780415413176 (pbk.) :
- 0415413176 (pbk.) :
- 0415271053 (hardback : alk. paper)
- DS99.D3 B867 2007
Contents:
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).
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American University in Dubai | American University in Dubai | Main Collection | DS 99 .D3 B867 2007 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 5036034 |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 325-359) and index.
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).
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