Damascus (Arabic officially دمشق Dimashq, colloquially ash-Sham الشام) is the capital city of Syria. It is often referred to as 'the oldest continuously-inhabited city in the world'. Its current population is estimated at about 2 million. Damascus - Name. In Arabic, the city is called دمشق الشام Dimashq ash-Sham. Although this is often shortened to Dimashq by many, the citizens of Damascus, and of Syria and some other Arab neighbors, colloquially call the city < ...

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Damascus - Ancient. Excavations at Tell Ramad on the outskirts of the city have demonstrated that Damascus has been inhabited as early as 8,000 to 10,000 BC. It is due to this that Damascus is considered to be the oldest continually inhabited city in the world. However, Damascus is not documented as an important city until the coming of the Aramaeans, Semitic nomads who arrived from the Arabian peninsula. It is known that it was the Aramaeans who first established the water distribution system of Damascus by cons ...

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Canaan or Knáʕan (Arabic کنعان, Hebrew כְּנַעַן, Septuagint Greek Χανααν) is an ancient term for a region roughly corresponding to present-day Israel/Palestine including the West Bank, western Jordan, southern and coastal Syria and Lebanon continuing up until the border of modern Turkey. Various Canaanite sites have been excavated by archaeologists, most notably the Canaanite town of Ugarit, which was rediscovere ...

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1920 (MCMXX) is a leap year starting on Thursday (link will take you to calendar) 1920 - Events. January 7 - Forces of Russian White admiral Kolchak surrender in Krasnoyarsk. January 9 - Britain announces it will build 1,000,000 homes for war veterans. The promise will never be fulfilled in full. January 9 - Thousands of onlookers watch as "The Human Fly" George Polley, climbs the New York Woolworth Building. He has reached the 30th floor wh ...

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Harran, also known as Carrhae, is an archeological site in present day southeastern Turkey, 24 miles (39 kilometers) southeast of Sanli Urfa. In its prime, it controlled the point where the road from Damascus joins the highway between Nineveh and Carchemish. This location gave Harran strategic value from an early date. It is frequently mentioned in Assyrian inscriptions as early as the time of Tiglath-Pileser I, about 1100 BC, under the name Harranu, or "Road"( Akkadian harrānu, road, path, journey ). After the Shupiluliuma-Shattiwazza treaty, Harran was burned by a Hittite army under Piyashshili ...

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The story of Cain and Abel, mentioned in the Torah and the Bible at Genesis 4, and Qu'ran at 5:27-32, tells of the somewhat unexplained murder of Abel by his brother, Cain. In the Torah, this even constitutes the first recorded murder, Cain and Abel being sons of Adam and Eve. Cain and Abel - Names. Cain and Abel are english renderings of the Hebrew names קַיִן / קָיִן and הֶבֶל / הָבֶל, respectively, from the bible. In the modern Standard Hebrew transliterati ...

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• Cain and Abel - Summary
• Cain and Abel - Motives
• Cain and Abel - Abel's death
• Cain and Abel - Burial
• Cain and Abel - In the underworld
• Cain and Abel - Mark of Cain
• Cain and Abel - Wanderer
• Cain and Abel - Origin
• Cain and Abel - Cain and Abel in popular culture

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Córdoba Spain - Roman Córdoba in Hispania Baetica. In Roman times, the city had more cultural buildings than Rome. It was the capital of the province of Hispania Baetica. Remains of the Roman Temple built by Claudius Marcellus, the Roman Bridge (illustration, right) and other Roman remains can still be seen around the city. Córdoba Spain - Caliphate of Córdoba. Córdoba (Arabic قرطبه Qurṭubah) was conquered by the Moors in 711, and Moorish ...

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Córdoba Spain, Córdoba Spain - History of Córdoba, Córdoba Spain - Roman Córdoba in Hispania Baetica, Córdoba Spain - Caliphate of Córdoba, Córdoba Spain - Christian Córdoba, Córdoba Spain - Modern Córdoba

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Aleppo (or Halab, حلب Arabic meaning "Fresh Milk") is a city and province in northern Syria. The city has a population of around 1.7 million (1999), making it the second largest city in the country after Damascus. It is one of the oldest cities in the region, known to antiquity as Khalpe and to the Greeks as Beroea, and occupies a strategic trading point midway between the sea and the Euphrates; initially, it was built on a small group of hills in a wide fertile valley on both sides of the river Quweiq. The province o ...

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• Aleppo - Born in Aleppo
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Al-Mustarshid (d. 1135) was the Abbasid Caliph in Baghdad from 1118 to 1135. Son of the preceding Caliph, he once more tried independence while the Seljuks were engaged in war in the East. They had left Baghdad much to itself. Risings in Iraq at this time were common. One of the rising was led by the famous but unscrupulous general Dubeis. After plundering Basra, he joined the Crusaders in their attempt upon Aleppo, and afterwards incited a young brother of the Sultan to rebel and make a dash upon the capital; but the Caliph with 12,000 m ...

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Ahab or Ach'av (אַחְאָב "Brother of the father", Standard Hebrew Aḥʼav, Tiberian Hebrew ʼAḥăʼāḇ, ʼAḫʼāḇ) was King of the Kingdom of Israel and the province of Samaria, and the son and successor of Omri (1 Kings 16:29-34). William F. Albright has dated his reign to 869 BC-850 BC, while E. R. Thiele offers the dates 874 BC-853 BC. He married Jezebel, the daughter of king Ithobaal I of Tyre, and the alliance was doubtless the means of procuring him great riches, wh ...

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Aircraft hijacking (also known as Skyjacking) is the take-over of an aircraft, by a person or group, usually armed. Unlike the hijacking of land vehicles, it is usually not perpetrated in order to rob the cargo. Rather, most aircraft hijackings are committed to use the passengers as hostages in an effort to obtain transportation to a given location, to hold them for ransom, or, as in the case of the American planes that were hijacked to Cuba during the 1970s, the release of comrades being held in prison. Another common motive i ...

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• Aircraft hijacking - Prevention
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• Aircraft hijacking - Tokyo Convention
• Aircraft hijacking - Hague Aircraft Hijacking Convention
• Aircraft hijacking - Montreal Convention

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Taqi al-Din Ahmad ibn 'Ali ibn 'Abd al-Qadir ibn Muhammad al-Makrizi (or Maqrizi) (1364 - 1442), is an Arabian historian, known as al-Maqrizi because of his ancestral connection with Maqriz, a suburb of Baalbek.1 According to Paul E. Walker, A Mamluk historian and himself a Sunni, he is remarkable in this context for his unusually keen interest in the Ismaili Fatimid dynasty and ...

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Islam History of Islam Oneness of God Profession of Faith Prayer • Fasting Pilgrimage • Charity Muhammad Ali • Abu Bakr Companions of Muhammad Household of Muhammad Prophets of Islam Qur'an • Hadith • Sharia Jurisprudence Biographies of Muhammad Sunni • Shi'a • Sufi Art • Architecture Cities • Calendar Science • Philosophy Religious leaders Women in Islam Political Islam • Jihad Liberal Islam< ...

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Ammon or Ammonites (עַמּוֹן "People", Standard Hebrew ʻAmmon, Tiberian Hebrew ʻAmmôn), also referred to in the Bible as the "children of Ammon," were a people living east of the Jordan river, who along with the Moabites traced their origin to Lot, the nephew of the patriarch Abraham, and who were regarded as close relatives of the Israelites and Edomites. Ammon - Territory. The borders of the Ammonite territory are not clearly defined in the Bible. In Judges xi. 13, the ...

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• Ammon - Role in the Israelite Exodus
• Ammon - In the time of the Judges
• Ammon - During the Kingdoms of Israel and Judah
• Ammon - Subsequent History
• Ammon - Language
• Ammon - Religion
• Ammon - Economy
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Aqaba (Arabic: العقبة al-ʻAqabah) is a coastal town with a population of 101,290 (2000) and 2% of Jordan's population in the far south of Jordan (29.5167° N 35.0° E). Aqaba is strategically important to Jordan as it is the country's only seaport. The town borders Eilat, Israel and there is a border post where it is possible to cross between the two countries. Both Aqaba and Eilat ar ...

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Antiochus I Soter (i.e. "Saviour") (324/​323-​262/​261 BC), was an emperor of the Hellenistic Seleucid Empire. He reigned from 281 BC - 261 BC. He was half Persian, his mother Apame being one of those eastern princesses whom Alexander the Great had given as wives to his generals in 324 BC. On the assassination of his father Seleucus I in 281 BC, the task of holding together the empire was a formidable one, and a revolt in Syria broke out almost immediately. With his father's murderer, Ptolemy, Antiochus was soon compelled ...

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The Antiochian Orthodox Church is one of the five churches that composed the One Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church before the Great Schism, and today is one of the autocephalous Eastern Orthodox Churches. It claims to be the sole legitimate successor to the Christian community founded in Antioch by the Apostle St. Peter. Its North American branch is autonomous, although the Holy Synod of Antioch still apoints its head bishop. The seat of the patriarchate was formerly Antioch, in what is now Tur ...

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The League was established on March 22, 1945. When the League founding pact was signed in Cairo, Egypt, "[t]he Arab League states collectively put their weight behind the basic demands of Palestine's Arabs but arrogated to themselves the right to select who would represent the Palestinians in their councils, so long as their country was not independent." 1 (p.173) By the end of World War II, the Palestinian Arabs were left leaderless. The mufti of Jerusalem Hajj Amin ...

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• Arab League and the Arab-Israeli conflict - 1967-2000
• Arab League and the Arab-Israeli conflict - After 2000
• Arab League and the Arab-Israeli conflict - Footnotes
• Arab League and the Arab-Israeli conflict - Arab-Israeli peace diplomacy and treaties

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Arab nationalism refers to a common nationalist ideology in wider Arab world. Arab nationalism is a form of ethnic nationalism. It is a claim to common heritage — that all Arabs are united by a shared history, culture, and language. Pan-Arabism is a related concept, which calls for the creation of a single Arab state, but not all Arab nationalists are also Pan-Arabists. Arab independence refers to the concept of the removal or minimization of direct Western influence in the Middle East, and the dissolution of regimes i ...

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