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Damascus : a history
- Title
- Damascus : a history / Ross Burns.
- Author
- Burns, Ross.
- Publication
- London ; New York : Routledge, 2005.
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Details
- Description
- xx, 386 pages : illustrations, maps; 24 cm
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 325-359) and index.
- 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).
- ISBN
- 0415271053 (hardback : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2004009857
- OCLC
- ocm55067557
- SCSB-5163380
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries