1517-1918 CE: Ottoman Damascus
1517-1918 CE: Ottoman DamascusThe city developed as an important provincial capital, pilgrimage centre and commercial…
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c. 10th-8th millennium BCE: Settlement in the wider Damascus region
c. 10th-8th millennium BCE: Settlement in the wider Damascus regionArchaeological evidence from Tell Ramad indicates…
3rd millennium BCE: Damascus emerges as a documented urban settlement
3rd millennium BCE: Damascus emerges as a documented urban settlementThe city becomes part of the…
1st millennium BCE: Aramaean Damascus
1st millennium BCE: Aramaean DamascusDamascus becomes the capital of an important Aramaean kingdom and a…
732 BCE: Assyrian conquest
732 BCE: Assyrian conquestTiglath-Pileser III incorporated Damascus into the Assyrian imperial system after the defeat…
64 BCE: Roman incorporation
64 BCE: Roman incorporationPompey incorporated Syria into the Roman sphere, and Damascus became an important…
4th century CE: Christian Byzantine transformation
4th century CE: Christian Byzantine transformationThe Roman religious complex in the centre of Damascus was…
634-635 CE: Muslim conquest of Damascus
634-635 CE: Muslim conquest of DamascusDamascus was incorporated into the early Islamic state and became…
661 CE: Beginning of the Umayyad Caliphate
661 CE: Beginning of the Umayyad CaliphateMuawiya I established Damascus as the capital of the…