Damascus
Burial place · Imperial capital
capital and largest city of Syria
Location: 33.5131, 36.2919 · Pleiades 678106
What this place is
- Imperial capital — the Umayyad caliphs' capital from 661 until the Abbasids moved the seat east in 750
Who is recorded here
- Paul the Apostle travel · AD 33
- Paul the Apostle residence · AD 35
- Ananias of Damascus burial · AD 60
- Ananias of Damascus birth · AD 100
- Damascius birth · AD 450
- Sophronius of Jerusalem birth · AD 560
- John of Damascus birth · AD 675
- Ananias of Damascus residence
- Paul the Apostle residence
What happened here
- Conversion of Paul AD 34
In art
About the place
Damascus is the capital and largest city of Syria. It is the oldest capital city in the world. Known colloquially in Syria as aš-Šām and dubbed, poetically, the "City of Jasmine", Damascus is a major cultural center of the Levant and the Arab world.
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