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This is a list of rulers of Damascus from ancient times to the present. General context: History of Damascus. Aram Damascus. Rezon I (c. 950 BC) Tabrimmon;
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List of rulers of Damascus. Categories: Rulers of Syria. History of Damascus.
7th–19th centuries. 613 – Sasanian captured Damascus during the Byzantine–Sasanian War of 602–628. 634 – Arab conquest of Damascus under Khalid ibn al-Walid. [1] 715 – Great Mosque built by Al-Walid I by converting the church of St John the Baptist constructed by Arcadius. [1] 789 – Qubbat al-Khazna built.
He had been on the run for six years after the Umayyads had lost the position of caliph in Damascus in 750 to the Abbasids. Intent on regaining a position of power, he defeated the existing Muslim rulers of the area who had defied Umayyad rule and united various local fiefdoms into an independent emirate . [6]
The old city of Damascus ( Arabic: دِمَشْق ٱلْقَدِيمَة, romanized : Dimašq al-Qadīmah) is the historic city centre of Damascus, Syria. The old city, which is one of the oldest continuously inhabited cities in the world, [1] contains numerous archaeological sites, including some historical churches and mosques.
Damascus was the capital of independent Ayyubid rulers between 1193 and 1201, from 1218 to 1238, from 1239 to 1245, and from 1250 to 1260. At other times it was ruled by the Ayyubid rulers of Egypt. During the internecine wars fought by the Ayyubid rulers, Damascus was besieged repeatedly, as, e.g., in 1229.
