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Damascus Arabic (llahže ššāmiyye), also called Damascus dialect or Damascene dialect is a Levantine Arabic spoken dialect, indigenous to and spoken primarily in Damascus. As the dialect of the capital city of Syria, and due to its use in the Syrian broadcast media, it is prestigious and widely recognized by speakers of other Syrian dialects ...
Damascene may refer to: Topics directly associated with the city of Damascus in Syria: A native or inhabitant of Damascus; Damascus Arabic, the local dialect of Damascus; Damascus steel, developed for swordmaking "Damascene moment", the religious conversion of Paul; Animal breeds: Damascene (pigeon) Damascus goat
Damascene composed numerous songs, many of which were published in the various musical miscellanies of the day, such as Choice Ayres and Songs, 1676–84; The Theatre of Musick, 1685–7; Vinculum Societatis, 1687–91; The Banquet of Musick, 1688–92; Comes Amoris, 1687–94; and The Gentleman's Journal, 1692–4.
The technique, while also being used on firearms, has a long history in Japan, where it was used to decorate katana fittings, particularly tsuba.Known as zougan (象嵌) in Japanese, it has developed its own subset of terms to describe the particular patterns, although "shippou-zougan" is an enamelling technique which most Westerners would consider closer to champlevé.
John of Damascus or John Damascene, born Yūḥana ibn Manṣūr ibn Sarjūn, [a] was an Arab Christian monk, priest, hymnographer, and apologist.He was born and raised in Damascus c. AD 675 or AD 676; the precise date and place of his death is not known, though tradition places it at his monastery, Mar Saba, near Jerusalem, on 4 December AD 749.
John of Damascus (676–749), Syrian monk and priest, also known as John Damascene; John of Beverley (died 721), Angle bishop; John of Pavia (died 813), Bishop of Pavia; John of Rila (876–946), Bulgarian priest and hermit; John Gualbert (died 1073), Founder of the Vallumbrosan Order; John Theristus (1049–1129), Italian Benedictine monk
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Nigella damascena, love-in-a-mist, [1] or devil in the bush, [2] is an annual garden flowering plant, belonging to the buttercup family Ranunculaceae.It is native to southern Europe (but adventive in more northern countries of Europe), north Africa and southwest Asia, where it is found on neglected, damp patches of land.