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Timeline Of Damascus
The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Damascus, Syria. Prior to 7th century * 965 BCE – Ezron, King of Aram-Zobah conquers Damascus * 843 BCE – Hazael assassinated Ben-Hadad I and made himself king of Damascus. * 732 BCE – Neo-Assyrian Empire conquers Damascus * 572 BCE – Neo-Babylonians conquered Damascus * 538 BCE – Achaemenid Empire annexes Damascus * 333 BCE – Alexander the Great conquers Damascus * 112 BCE – Damascus fell to Antiochus IX Cyzicenus. * 150 CE – Damascus became a Roman provincial city under Trajan. * 4th century – Temple of Jupiter built by the Romans. 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. * 715 – Great Mosque built by Al-Walid I by converting the church of St John the Baptist constructed by Arcadius. * 789 – Qubbat al-Khazna built. * 1078 – Citadel of Damascus built. * 1126 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Siege Of Damascus (634)
The siege of Damascus (634) lasted from 21 August to 19 September 634 before the city fell to the Rashidun Caliphate. Damascus was the first major city of the Byzantine Empire, Eastern Roman Empire to fall in the Muslim conquest of Syria. The last of the Roman–Persian Wars ended in 628, after Heraclius concluded a successful campaign against the Persians in Mesopotamia. At the same time, Muhammad united the Arabs under the banner of Islam. After his death in 632, Abu Bakr succeeded him as the first Rashidun Caliph. Suppressing several internal revolts, Abu Bakr sought to expand the empire beyond the confines of the Arabian Peninsula. In April 634, Abu Bakr invaded the Byzantine empire, Byzantine Empire in the Levant and decisively defeated a Byzantine army at the Battle of Ajnadayn. The Muslim armies marched north and laid siege to Damascus. The city was taken after a monophysite bishop informed Khalid ibn al-Walid, the Muslim commander in chief, that it was possible to breac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Siege Of Damascus (1229)
The siege of Damascus of 1229 was part of an Ayyubid succession war over Damascus that broke out following the death of al-Muʿaẓẓam I in 1227. The late ruler's son, al-Nāṣir Dāʾūd, took ''de facto'' control of the city in opposition to al-Kāmil, the Ayyubid sultan in Egypt. In the ensuing war, al-Nāṣir lost Damascus but preserved his autonomy, ruling from al-Karak. Sources and background The main sources for the siege are Ibn Wāṣil's ''Mufarrij'' and ''Taʾrīkh al-Ṣāliḥī'', Abū Shāma's ''al-Dhayl ʿalaʾl-rawḍatayn'', Ibn al-Athīr's '' al-Kāmil fi ʾl-tāʾrīkh'', Kamāl al-Dīn Ibn al-ʿAdīm' ''Zubdat al-Ḥalab min tāʾrīkh Ḥalab'', Sibṭ ibn al-Jawzī's ''Mirʾāt al-Zamān'', Ibn Abi ʾl-Dam's ''al-Shamārīkh'' and al-Makīn ibn al-ʿAmīd's chronicle. Ibn Wāṣil, Abū Shāma and Sibṭ ibn al-Jawzī were eyewitnesses of the siege. Abū Shāma provides the most precise dating. Within the Ayyubid realm, the sultan of Egypt was suzerain ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Al-Rukniyah Madrasa
Al-Rukniyah Madrasa () is a 13th-century madrasah located in Damascus, Syria.Rukniyya Madrasa Archnet Digital Library. 
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Al-Adiliyah Madrasa
Al-Adiliyah Madrasa () is a 13th-century madrasah located in Damascus, Syria.Al-Adiliyah Madrasa Archnet Digital Library. Modern day In 1919 CE, the National Museum was assembled inside this school. It holds now the Arabic Language Academy in Damascus./ref> See also * * |
Mausoleum Of Saladin
The Mausoleum of Saladin holds the resting place and grave of the medieval Muslim Ayyubid Sultan Saladin. It is adjacent to the Umayyad Mosque in Damascus, Syria. It was built in 1196, three years after the death of Saladin. In addition to the tomb, the tomb complex included Madrassah al-Aziziah, of which little remains, except a few columns and an internal arch adjacent to the renovated tomb. The mausoleum presently houses two sarcophagi: one made of wood, said to contain Saladin's remains, and one made of marble, was built in homage to Saladin in late nineteenth century by Ottoman Sultan Abdulhamid II and was later restored by German emperor Wilhelm II. Along with a marble sarcophagus, a golden ornate gilt bronze wreath was also put on the marble sarcophagus, which was later removed by either Faisal I or Lawrence of Arabia, who later deposited it in the Imperial War Museum. Gallery File:Damascus-53.jpg, c. 1900: the marble sarcophagus built by Ottoman Sultan Abdulhamid II ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nur Al-Din Bimaristan
Nur al-Din Bimaristan ( ar, البيمارستان النوري) is a large Muslim medieval ''bimaristan'' ("hospital") in Damascus, Syria. It is located in the al-Hariqa quarter in the old walled city, to the southwest of the Umayyad Mosque. It was built and named after the Zengid Sultan Nur ad-Din in 1154, and later on an extension was added to the main building in 1242 by a physician Badr al-Din. It was restored in 1975 and now houses the ''Museum of Medicine and Science in the Arab World''. Constructed in two phases the first construction phase was commissioned by Nur al-Din in 1154 CE and the second phase was about 90 years later and was commissioned by a physician, Badr al-Din, circa 1242 CE. It was renovated in 1975 and a small museum was established here. See also * Nur al-Din Madrasa The Nur al-Din Madrasa ( ar, الْمَدْرَسَةُ النُّورِيَّة, al-Madrasah an-Nūrīyah) is a funerary madrasa in Damascus, Syria. It is in the Suq al-Khayattin, inside ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Al-Mujahidiyah Madrasa
Al-Mujahidiyah Madrasa () is a madrasah complex in Damascus, Syria. Built in 1141 by Burid governor Mujahid al-Din bin Bazan bin Yammin al-Kurdu.Mujahidiyya Madrasa Mujahidiyya Madrasa Archnet Digital Library. See also * *Az-Zahiriyah Library
The Zahiriyya Library ( ar, مكتبة الظاهرية, Maktaba al-Ẓāhirīyya), also known as the Madrasa al-Zahiriyya ( ar, مَدْرَسَة الظَّاهِرِيَّة, Madrasah aẓ-Ẓāhirīyah), is an Islamic library, madrasa, and m ...
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Crusade Of 1129
The Crusade of 1129 or the Damascus Crusade was a military campaign of the Kingdom of Jerusalem with forces from the other crusader states and from western Europe against the Emirate of Damascus. The brainchild of King Baldwin II of Jerusalem, the crusade failed to meet its military objectives. Its diplomatic preliminaries, however, secured the succession to the throne of Jerusalem and papal backing for the Knights Templar. Planning Diplomacy Baldwin II launched raids into Damascene territory in 1125 and 1126. These convinced him that he needed outside support to take the city. For this purpose he sent three embassies to western Europe in 1127–1128. Steven Runciman argued that the death of Ṭughtigin, emir of Damascus, on 11 February 1128 caused Baldwin to plan another attempt on Damascus, but the evidence that an embassy had already been sent in 1127 suggests that the decision had already been made. Neither did Baldwin campaign in 1127 or 1128, which further suggests that he ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Citadel Of Damascus
The Citadel of Damascus ( ar, قلعة دمشق, 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 bin Uvak, although it is possible but not proven that a citadel stood on this place in the Hellenistic and Roman periods. After the assassination of Atsiz bin Uvak, the project was finished by the Seljuq ruler Tutush I. The emirs of the subsequent Burid and Zengid dynasties carried out modifications and added new structures to it. During this period, the citadel and the city were besieged several times by Crusader and Muslim armies. In 1174, the citadel was captured by Saladin, the Ayyubid sultan of Egypt, who made it his residence and had the defences and residential buildings modified. Saladin's brother Al-Adil rebuilt the citadel completely between ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Qubbat Al-Khazna
Qubbat al-Khazna ( ar, قبة الخزنة, Qubbat al-Khaznah, lit=Dome of the Treasury), also known as the Bayt al-Mal or Beit al-Mal, is an old structure within the courtyard of the Umayyad Mosque in Damascus, Syria. It is an octagonal structure decorated with mosaics, standing on eight Ancient Roman architecture, Roman columns. The dome was built under orders from the Abbasid Caliphate, Abbasid governor of Damascus, Fadl ibn Salih, in 789. The exterior walls of the structure were originally covered in colorful mosaic decoration which imitated the earlier Umayyad Caliphate, Umayyad-era mosaics in the rest of the mosque, although they are of slightly lesser quality than the latter. The mosaics were restored in 13th or 14th century and then in the late 20th century they were almost entirely redone based on existing fragments. The Roman columns that were re-used for the structure's pillars were truncated to achieve the desired height but preserve original Roman-era Capital (archit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arcadius
Arcadius ( grc-gre, Ἀρκάδιος ; 377 – 1 May 408) was Roman emperor from 383 to 408. He was the eldest son of the ''Augustus'' Theodosius I () and his first wife Aelia Flaccilla, and the brother of Honorius (). Arcadius ruled the eastern half of the empire from 395, when their father died, while Honorius ruled the west. A weak ruler, his reign was dominated by a series of powerful ministers and by his wife, Aelia Eudoxia.Nicholson, p. 119 Early life Arcadius was born in 377 in Hispania, the eldest son of Theodosius I and Aelia Flaccilla, and brother of Honorius. On 16 January 383, his father declared the five-year-old Arcadius an Augustus and co-ruler for the eastern half of the Empire. Ten years later a corresponding declaration made Honorius Augustus of the western half. Arcadius passed his early years under the tutelage of the rhetorician Themistius and Arsenius Zonaras, a monk. Emperor Early reign Both of Theodosius' sons were young and inexperienced, su ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
