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Damascus

Damascus \Da*mas"cus\, n. [L.] A city of Syria.

Damascus blade, a sword or scimiter, made chiefly at Damascus, having a variegated appearance of watering, and proverbial for excellence.

Damascus iron, or Damascus twist, metal formed of thin bars or wires of iron and steel elaborately twisted and welded together; used for making gun barrels, etc., of high quality, in which the surface, when polished and acted upon by acid, has a damask appearance.

Damascus steel. See Damask steel, under Damask, a.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Damascus

ancient city in Syria, famous in medieval times for silk and steel, mid-13c., from Latin Damascus, from Greek Damaskos, from Semitic (compare Hebrew Dammeseq, Arabic Dimashq), from a pre-Semitic name of unknown origin. Related: Damascene, from Latin Damascenus "of Damascus."

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Damascus, AR -- U.S. town in Arkansas
Population (2000): 306
Housing Units (2000): 157
Land area (2000): 1.932488 sq. miles (5.005122 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 1.932488 sq. miles (5.005122 sq. km)
FIPS code: 17290
Located within: Arkansas (AR), FIPS 05
Location: 35.366849 N, 92.410276 W
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Damascus, GA -- U.S. town in Georgia
Population (2000): 277
Housing Units (2000): 115
Land area (2000): 1.757247 sq. miles (4.551249 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.008337 sq. miles (0.021594 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 1.765584 sq. miles (4.572843 sq. km)
FIPS code: 21436
Located within: Georgia (GA), FIPS 13
Location: 31.298580 N, 84.717429 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 31741
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Damascus, MD -- U.S. Census Designated Place in Maryland
Population (2000): 11430
Housing Units (2000): 3773
Land area (2000): 9.624894 sq. miles (24.928359 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 9.624894 sq. miles (24.928359 sq. km)
FIPS code: 21475
Located within: Maryland (MD), FIPS 24
Location: 39.271040 N, 77.206098 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 20872
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Damascus, VA -- U.S. town in Virginia
Population (2000): 981
Housing Units (2000): 543
Land area (2000): 0.847727 sq. miles (2.195602 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.847727 sq. miles (2.195602 sq. km)
FIPS code: 21184
Located within: Virginia (VA), FIPS 51
Location: 36.633933 N, 81.787034 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 24236
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Damascus

Damascus ( ) is the capital and the largest city of Syria after Aleppo prior to the civil war. It is now most likely the largest city of Syria, due to the decline of Aleppo because of the ongoing battle for the city. It is commonly known in Syria as ash-Sham ( ) and nicknamed as the City of Jasmine ( ). In addition to being one of the oldest continuously inhabited cities in the world, Damascus is a major cultural and religious centre of the Levant. The city has an estimated population of 1,711,000 .

Located in south-western Syria, Damascus is the centre of a large metropolitan area of 2.6 million people (2004). Geographically embedded on the eastern foothills of the Anti-Lebanon mountain range inland from the eastern shore of the Mediterranean on a plateau above sea level, Damascus experiences a semi-arid climate because of the rain shadow effect. The Barada River flows through Damascus.

First settled in the second millennium BC, it was chosen as the capital of the Umayyad Caliphate from 661 to 750. After the victory of the Abbasid dynasty, the seat of Islamic power was moved to Baghdad. Damascus saw a political decline throughout the Abbasid era, only to regain significant importance in the Ayyubid and Mamluk periods. Today, it is the seat of the central government and all of the government ministries.

Damascus (disambiguation)

Damascus is the capital of Syria. It may also refer to:

  • Damascus affair, an incident involving the Jewish community in Damascus in 1840
  • Damascus steel, a material used in making blades
  • Damascus (horse), an American Thoroughbred racehorse
  • "Damascus moment" or "Damascene moment", in reference to the Conversion of Paul
  • Damascus Securities Exchange
  • A damson, once known as a Damascus plum.
Damascus (horse)

Damascus (April 14, 1964 – August 8, 1995) was a Thoroughbred race horse sired by Sword Dancer (1959's Horse of the Year) out of Kerala (by My Babu) foaled at the Jonabell Farm in Lexington, Kentucky. In 1967, he won the Preakness Stakes, Belmont Stakes*, Jockey Club Gold Cup*, Wood Memorial, Travers Stakes, Dwyer Stakes (closing from 12 lengths back and spotting the runner up 16 pounds), and Woodward Stakes and was named Horse of the Year and champion three-year-old colt, plus he shared the champion handicap male honors with Buckpasser. Also in 1967, Damascus finished third in the 1967 Kentucky Derby. A high-strung horse, he was enervated by the humidity and spooked by the crowd noise, so he was thereafter given a stable pony to calm him. During the same year, top horses Dr. Fager and Buckpasser were also competing. In Blood-Horse magazine's top 100 U.S. thoroughbred champions of the 20th Century, Buckpasser ranks 14th and Dr. Fager ranks 6th. In a race many consider the "Race of the Century," Damascus won the 1967 Woodward by 10 lengths over both of these horses after his connections, as well as those of Buckpasser, used stablemates to set a blistering pace, thus weakening Dr. Fager. Damascus himself ranks number 16 in the Blood Horse listing.

Usage examples of "damascus".

Uday hopscotched their way across western Iraqi, moving from Bija, Mayadin, and Maah until they made their way to what they thought would be a safe haven in Damascus, Syria.

The entire area was littered with inlaid Damascus tables and Cairene folding stands which held assorted statuary and delicate porcelain vases.

Paul Crouch had something to do with tobacco promoting Formula One cars and Ronny Raul was a food scientist at US Abstract Foods Corporation on the Banbury ring road, whose factory would fill the air for miles around with the smell of whatever they were concocting that day, nutmeg and cinnamon, coffee and cardamon, saffron and chocolate, the smells of the Damascus souk amongst the tilting roadsigns and squashed-flat rabbit corpses of the A316.

In the East he fixed a line of camps from Egypt to the Persian dominions, and for every camp, he instituted an adequate number of stationary troops, commanded by their respective officers, and supplied with every kind of arms, from the new arsenals which he had formed at Antioch, Emesa, and Damascus.

Syria was conquered by the Fatimites, who were succeeded by the Seljuks, who captured Damascus about A.

The primogeniture of the line of Hashem, and the holy character of grandson of the apostle, had centred in his person, and he was at liberty to prosecute his claim against Yezid, the tyrant of Damascus, whose vices he despised, and whose title he had never deigned to acknowledge.

The great golden dome rising above Damascus Gate, beyond it really, is the Mosque of the Dome of the Rock, the rock which was called the threshing-floor of Araunah the Jebusite when King David first came to Jerusalem and made it his capital, the place where Abraham went to sacrifice Isaac and where Solomon raised the Temple and where Mohammed is said to have mounted his horse to ascend to heaven, a great broad rock which is the heart of the Temple Mount.

Lastly, the Khalif invested him with a robe of honour, and wished to appoint him Governor of Damascus, but this he humbly refused.

Coming up from Peru through the cinchona forests of Loja, and over the barren hills of Assuay, the traveler reaches Riobamba, seated on the threshold of magnificence--like Damascus, an oasis in a sandy plain, but, unlike the Queen of the East, surrounded with a splendid retinue of snowy peaks that look like icebergs floating in a sea of clouds.

Perhaps also because I would warn you not to throw away lives so gallant by attempting to win through the guarded gates of Damascus upon the maddest of all quests.

Hajj-road from Damascus to Mekka, the position of which is in about 28 deg.

Damascus to Deir ez-Zur, always stopped for the night in a hill village about thirty kilometers west of the Pachomian oasis.

And the paratroop colonel took part in a failed coup attempt and then escaped to Baghdad, only to reenter Damascus clandestinely with the help of Iraqi agents, disguised as an old peasant woman, to be immediately arrested and tried and shot, all within twenty-four hours.

Her family was devout, and she had an uncle who was a great Talmudist in Damascus.

From its elevation of 9,200 feet, the antenna would sweep the Damascus plain and the Transjordanian plateau as far south as Amman in Jordan on every ten-second rotation.