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.

While Paul was on the road to Damascus, near Damascus, " suddenly a light from heaven flashed around him.

The Islamic Golden Age was inaugurated by the middle of the 8th century by the ascension of the Abbasid Caliphate and the transfer of the capital from Damascus to the newly founded city Baghdad.

The two cardines converged near the Damascus Gate, and a semicircular piazza covered the remaining space ; in the piazza a columnar monument was constructed, hence the traditional name for the gate-Bab el-Amud ( Gate of the Column ).

Born near Damascus in Syria, Abd al-Rahman, grandson of Hisham ibn Abd al-Malik, was the son of the Umayyad prince Mu ' awiyah ibn Hisham and a Berber mother.

Ezekiel appears briefly in the Dead Sea Scrolls, but his influence there was profound, most notably in the Temple Scroll with its temple plans, and the defence of the Zadokite priesthood in the Damascus Document.

Damascus steel was a term used by several Western cultures from the Medieval period onward to describe a type of steel created in India and used in swordmaking from about 300 BC to 1700 AD.

Despite this, several individuals in modern times have claimed that they have rediscovered the methods in which the original Damascus steel was produced.

From the 3rd century to the 17th century, India was shipping steel ingots to the Middle East for use in Damascus steel.

The original Damascus steel or wootz was imported from India to the Middle East.

Verhoeven and Pendray had already determined that the grains on the surface of the steel were grains of iron carbide — their goal was to reproduce the iron carbide patterns they saw in the Damascus blades from the grains in the wootz.

This process was referred to as " laminating " or " Damascus " and these barrels were found on shotguns that sold for $ 12.

In 1632 Ahmad Koujak was named Lord of Damascus.

The civil war was not therefore a religious war, except in Damascus, where it spread and where the vastly non-Druze population was anti-Christian.

It was a gamble which did not pay off, and whether through military error or betrayal, the Damascus campaign was a failure, and the royal family retreated to Jerusalem and then sailed to Rome and back to Paris.

In 1999, a small sample of the blade underwent metallurgical analysis which confirmed that the blade was made in Moorish Córdoba in the eleventh century and contained amounts of Damascus steel.

The Mamluk province of Bilad a-Sham ( Syria ) was conquered by Turkish Sultan Selim II in 1516 – 17, becoming a part of the province of Ottoman Syria for the next four centuries, first as the Damascus Eyalet and later as the Syria Vilayet ( following the Tanzimat reorganization of 1864 ).

At this time Israel was apparently engaged in a three-way contest with Damascus and Tyre for control of the Jezreel Valley and Galilee in the north, and with Moab, Ammon and Damascus in the east for control of Gilead ; the Mesha stele ( c. 830 ), left by a king of Moab, celebrates his success in throwing off the oppression of the " House of Omri " ( i. e. Israel ).

* On February 12, 2008, Imad Mughnieh was killed by a car bomb in Damascus, Syria.

After meeting in Acre in June, the crusading kings Louis VII of France and Conrad III of Germany agreed with Melisende, Baldwin III and the major nobles of the kingdom to attack Damascus.

The first major victory came on October 31, 1622 against the Syrian army of the Pasha of Damascus in the Battle of Majdel Anjar.

Suleiman's conquests had brought under the control of the Empire the major Muslim cities ( Mecca, Medina, Jerusalem, Damascus, and Baghdad ), many Balkan provinces ( reaching present day Croatia and Austria ), and most of North Africa.

At the time, Amman, now the capital of the Kingdom of Jordan, became a major town in " Jund Dimashq " ( the military district of Damascus ) and became the seat of the provincial governor.

The Fatimids, under the governor of Damascus Manjutakin, scored a series of successes against the Hamdanids and their Byzantine allies, including a major victory against the doux of Antioch, Michael Bourtzes, at the Battle of the Orontes in September 994.

As early as the 10th century, ice cream was widespread among many of the Arab world's major cities, including Baghdad, Damascus, and Cairo.

In this region, bordering the Sea of Galilee, was the highly fertile plain of Gennesaret, characterised by Josephus as the ambition of nature, an earthly paradise, and with the southern portion of the region acting as a natural pass between the highlands of Canaan, several major roads ( such as those from Damascus to Tyre and Acre ) ran through it.

In its prime Harran was a major Assyrian city which controlled the point where the road from Damascus joins the highway between Nineveh and Carchemish.

Damascus is located at the intersection of two major roads in upper Montgomery County, Ridge Road ( currently Rt.

The port of Aqaba was a major Ottoman port on the red sea, connected to Damascus and Medina by the Hejaz railway.

Today Daraa is the southernmost city of Syria on the border with Jordan and a major midpoint between Damascus and Baghdad.

The combined forces achieved a major victory at the December 1299 Battle of Wadi al-Khazandar ( sometimes called the Battle of Homs ), taking Damascus, and Hethum was able to regain all of the Armenian territory which had previously been lost to the Mamluks.

Toron, now Tibnin or Tebnine in southern Lebanon, was a major Crusader castle, built in the Lebanon mountains on the road from Tyre to Damascus.

As with any village community in the 21st century, young residents are migrating into major cities like Damascus and Aleppo in search of better employment opportunities, thus forcing them into monolingual Arabic-speaking settings, in turn straining the opportunity to actively maintain Neo-Aramaic as a language of daily use.

In addition to the usual central north-south road ( cardo ), which in Jerusalem headed straight up the western hill, a second major north-south road was added down the line of the Tyropoeon Valley ; these two cardines converge near the Damascus Gate, close to the Via Dolorosa.

His statue stands in a major square in central Damascus, with streets and schools named in his honor in cities all over Syria.

The Tripartite Accord () of 1985 was a short-lived agreement between the three major Lebanese feuding factions, signed in Damascus, Syria, to end the Lebanese Civil War.

The Damascus Spring made a major impact across the Arab world, and initially there was considerable optimism that it would lead to real change.

Villages in the region of Damascus and Aleppo depend on trading.

Guy had previously allied himself with Raynald, who was by now taking advantage of his position at Kerak to harass the trading caravans travelling between Egypt and Damascus.

Damasks used one of the five basic weaving techniques of the Byzantine and Islamic weaving centres of the early Middle Ages, and derive their name from the city of Damascus, which at the time was a large city active in both trading, as part of the silk road, and manufacture.

The capital of the Caliphate will later moved from Damascus to Baghdad, within the territory of the former Persian Empire ; this transfer will prove to be a momentous event for Baghdad, which develops into a centre of international trade and culture.

" The caravan of all ages, from the interior of Arabia and from the Persian Gulf, from Hadhramaut on the ocean, and even from Sabea ( Sheba ) or Yemen, appear to have pointed to Petra as a common centre ; and from Petra the tide seems again to have branched out in every direction, to Egypt, Palestine, and Syria, through Arsinoe, Gaza, Tyre, Jerusalem, and Damascus, and by other routes, terminating at the Mediterranean Sea.

Hijaz was later at the centre of the Caliphate, before its capital was moved to Damascus.

Moorish architecture has its roots deeply established in the Arab tradition of architecture and design established during the era of the first Caliphate of the Umayyads in the Levant circa 660AD with its capital Damascus having very well preserved examples of fine Arab Islamic design and geometrics, including the carmen, which is the typical Damascene house, opening on the inside with a fountain as the house's centre piece.

The region is sometimes defined as the area that was dominated by Damascus, long an important regional centre — in fact, the Arabic word al-Sham الشام standing on its own can refer to the city of Damascus.

Spenny Cinema, a monthly community cinema is run at St. Paul's Centre in the heart of Spennymoor and is run by Damascus Road Technical Services, in association with the centre.

The Hula Valley was a main junction on the important trade route connecting the large commercial centre of Damascus with the eastern Mediterranean coast and Egypt.