Damascus: A History

by Ross Burns

Book Overview

Damascus, first published in 2005, was the first account in English of the history of the city, bringing out the crucial role it has played at many points in the region's past. It traces the story of this colourful, significant and complex city through its physical development, from the its emergence in around 7000 BC through the changing cavalcade of Aramaean, Persian, Greek, Roman, Byzantine, Arab, Turkish and French rulers to independence in...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1138483354
• ISBN13: 9781138483354
• Release Date: February 2019
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 420 Pages
• Weight: 2.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.2"