Only with Aram Damascus is he believed to have had strained relations.

A treaty was made whereby Ben-hadad restored the cities which his father had taken from Ahab's father ( that is, Omri, but see 15: 20, 2 Kings 13: 25 ), and trading facilities between Damascus and Samaria were granted.

The conversion of Paul on the road to Damascus is told three times.

It is said that Jeremiah retired to a cavern outside the Damascus gate, where he wrote this book.

The leadership is stationed in Damascus, and most of the DFLP organization on the Occupied Territories unraveled in the FIDA split.

Today, the term is used to describe steel that mimics the appearance and performance of Damascus steel, usually that which is produced by either crucible forging or pattern welding.

The original method of producing Damascus steel is not known.

Recreating Damascus steel is a subfield of experimental archaeology.

This " Modern Damascus " is made from several types of steel and iron slices welded together to form a billet.

Image: Damascus Khan asad Pacha cropped. jpg | Geometry is used in art and architecture.

According to John of Damascus, anyone who tries to destroy icons " is the enemy of Christ, the Holy Mother of God and the saints, and is the defender of the Devil and his demons.

Railways are not commonly used for passenger transport in Jordan, the only passenger railway is that connecting Amman to Damascus in Syria.

The Greek legend of " Barlaam and Ioasaph " is sometimes attributed to the 7th century John of Damascus, but actually it was transcribed by the Georgian monk Euthymius in the 11th century.

From the Muslim perspective, a chief source of information is Usamah ibn Munqidh, a soldier and frequent ambassador from Damascus to Jerusalem and Egypt, whose memoirs, Kitab al i ' tibar, include lively accounts of crusader society in the east.

Responding to the announcement, opposition leader Walid Jumblatt said that he wanted to hear more specifics from Damascus about any withdrawal: " It's a nice gesture but ' next few months ' is quite vague – we need a clear-cut timetable ".

Overall, Abd al-Malik ibn Marwan ( Al-Waleed's father ) is said to have transformed 10 churches in Damascus into mosques.

From June 26 until December 22, 2006, two children, Ammar ( 12-13 ) and Sara ( 10-11 ), lived in the Dutch embassy in Damascus because of a child custody dispute between the Dutch mother, supported by Dutch law and the Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction, and the Syrian father, supported by Syrian law ( Syria is no participant of this convention ).

He was struck blind, but after three days his sight was restored by Ananias of Damascus, and Paul began to preach that Jesus of Nazareth is the Jewish Messiah and the Son of God.

" Cable Damascus ", forged from high carbon multi-strand cable, is a popular item for bladesmiths to produce, producing a finely grained, twisted pattern, while chainsaw chains produce a pattern of randomly positioned blobs of color.

Saladin, who now lived in Damascus, was reported to have a particular fondness of the city, but information on his early childhood is scarce.

After marching into Damascus in July 1920 to put down an anti-colonial rising, French General Henri Gouraud is reputed to have stood at Saladin's grave, kicked it and said: " The Crusades have ended now!

Syria is significant in the history of Christianity ; Paul was converted on the Road to Damascus and emerged as a significant figure in the first organized Christian Church at Antioch in ancient Syria, from which he left on many of his missionary journeys.

The capital Damascus is the second largest city in Syria, and the metropolitan area is a governorate on its own.

Whatever the reason for the failure, the French and German armies returned home, and a few years later Damascus was firmly under Nur ad-Din's control.

" On November 23, he arrived in Damascus amid general acclamations and rested at his father's old home there, until the gates of the Citadel of Damascus were opened to him four days later.

After leaving the al-Nusayri Mountains, Saladin returned to Damascus and had his Syrian soldiers return home.

Added to the terrorist operatives calling Damascus home, in 2010, Iraqi Baathists continued to congregate in the Syrian capital and some of them call for violence against the Iraqi government, Iraqi civilian targets, and American and coalition forces within Iraq.

Damascus is home to Southwest Georgia Academy.

He participated in the Siege of Damascus, led by his wife's half-brother Baldwin III of Jerusalem, and with the support of Baldwin, Louis VII of France, and Conrad III of Germany, he lay claim to Damascus ; the native crusader barons preferred one of their own nobles, Guy Brisebarre, lord of Beirut, but in any case the siege was a failure and all parties returned home.

" In 2007, Lebanese poet, Marwan Chamoun, in an interview aired on Télé Liban, referred to the "... slaughter of the priest Tomaso de Camangiano ... in 1840 ... in the presence of two rabbis in the heart of Damascus, in the home of a close friend of this priest, Daud Al-Harari, the head of the Jewish community of Damascus.

In 1957 she stayed with Johannes von Leers in Egypt as she traveled across the Middle East when returning home to New Delhi, including stops in Beirut, Damascus, Baghdad, Tehran, and Zahedan.

The town was also home to Wescott's, builder of fiberglass reproduction bodies for custom cars, but that shop is officially in the city of Damascus now that there are official city limits.

Six days later, on March 1, Atassi returned to Damascus from his home in Homs and reassumed his duties as President.

When he died in 1967 in Beirut, after the Syrian authorities initially almost refused to allow his body burial at home, he was interred in Damascus in a lavish state funeral, which adequately reflected the ambitious posturing that marked the course of his life.

His sisters were flown by Irish Government executive jet to Damascus to meet him and bring him home to Northern Ireland.

Harriet is persuaded to return home by ship, but changes her mind at the last minute and goes to Damascus with friends.

Mar Saba was also the home of St. John of Damascus ( 676-749 ), a key religious figure in the Iconoclastic Controversy, who around 726 wrote letters to the Byzantine emperor Leo III the Isaurian refuting his edicts prohibiting the veneration of icons ( images of Christ or other Christian religious figures ).

He died probably in 1515 in Jerusalem, however, other reports indicate his final home was the Hebrew community of Damascus and the death occurred in 1520.

Between 734 and 727 Tiglath-Pileser III of Assyria conducted almost annual campaigns in Palestine, reducing Israel, Judah and the Philistine cities to vassalage, receiving tribute from Ammon, Moab and Edom, and absorbing Damascus ( the kingdom of Aram ) into the Assyrian empire.

* Virginia Creeper Trail website with an emphasis on Damascus

He also published works on the Last Days of the Life of Jesus, on Judaism in the Time of Christ, on John of Damascus ( 1879 ) and an Examination of the Vatican Dogma in the Light of Patristic Exegesis of the New Testament.

* " The Good Wife ", episode " Live From Damascus " – " Seven Days "