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The Damascus Document Scroll, 4Q271D f, found in Cave 4 at Qumran. The Damascus Document [a] is an ancient Hebrew text known from both the Cairo Geniza and the Dead Sea Scrolls. [3] [4] It is considered one of the foundational documents of the ancient Jewish community of Qumran. [2]
The Damascus Protocol was a document given to Faisal bin Hussein on 23 May 1915 by the Arab secret societies al-Fatat and al-'Ahd [1] on his second visit to Damascus during a mission to consult Turkish officials in Constantinople.
The university was established in 1979 as Al-Baath University during Ba'athist rule [2] by Presidential Decree No. 44 issued by Hafez al-Assad. [citation needed]As of 2005 the University had 22 faculties, 5 intermediate institutes, 40,000 regular students, [1] 20,000 students in open learning, 1310 high studies students and 622 faculty members.
La Caserne Hamidieh - previous headquarter of the Syrian University, is the Faculty of Law building Aerial view of the headquarter in 1933. In 1901, the establishment of the Office of the School of Medicine in Damascus was approved and in 1903 this school, which is the nucleus of the university, opened.
The Damascus Declaration (Arabic: إعلان دمشق) was a statement of unity by Syrian opposition figures issued in October 2005. It criticized the Assad regime as " authoritarian , totalitarian and cliquish ," and called for "peaceful, gradual," reform "founded on accord, and based on dialogue and recognition of the other."
The mountain was heavily entrenched with Syrian government forces from the start of the Syrian Civil War, as it was a strategic site in the battle for the outskirts of Damascus. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] A network of tunnels was dug into the mountain by the Syrian Arab Army to serve as a garrison for the Republican Guard and was also used as firing positions ...
The Arab Academy of Damascus (Arabic: مجمع اللغة العربية بدمشق) is the oldest academy regulating the Arabic language, established in 1918 during the reign of Faisal I of Syria. It is based in al-Adiliyah Madrasa , and is modeled on the language academies of Europe, and founded with an explicit reference to the example of ...
Map of Damascus in 1855 View of Damascus, 1898. 965 BCE – Ezron, King of Aram-Zobah conquers Damascus; 843 BCE – Hazael assassinated Ben-Hadad I and made himself king of Damascus. [1] 732 BCE – Neo-Assyrian Empire conquers Damascus; 572 BCE – Neo-Babylonians conquered Damascus; 538 BCE – Achaemenid Empire annexes Damascus