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Damask. Italian silk polychrome damasks, 14th century. Damask ( /ˈdæməsk/; Arabic: دمشق) is a woven, reversible patterned fabric. Damasks are woven by periodically reversing the action of the warp and weft threads. [1] The pattern is most commonly created with a warp-faced satin weave and the ground with a weft-faced or sateen weave. [2]
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's population in 2004 was estimated to be 2.7 million people. The estimated population of Damascus in 2011 was 1,711,000. However, in 2022, the city had an estimated population of 2,503,000, which in early 2023 rose to 2,584,771. Damascus is the center of a crowded metropolitan area with an estimated population of 5 million.
The Citadel of Damascus ( Arabic: قلعة دمشق, romanized : Qalʿat Dimašq) is a large medieval fortified palace and citadel in Damascus, Syria. It is part of the Ancient City of Damascus, which was listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1979. The location of the current citadel was first fortified in 1076 by the Turkman warlord Atsiz ...
The Umayyad Mosque ( Arabic: الجامع الأموي, romanized : al-Jāmiʿ al-Umawī ), also known as the Great Mosque of Damascus, located in the old city of Damascus, the capital of Syria, is one of the largest and oldest mosques in the world. Its religious importance stems from the eschatological reports concerning the mosque, and ...
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.
Age of the gunpowder empires. The Islamic Golden Age was a period of scientific, economic and cultural flourishing in the history of Islam, traditionally dated from the 8th century to the 13th century. [1] [2] [3]
The early domes of the Middle Ages, particularly in those areas recently under Byzantine control, were an extension of earlier Roman architecture. The domed church architecture of Italy from the sixth to the eighth centuries followed that of the Byzantine provinces and, although this influence diminishes under Charlemagne, it continued on in ...