HISTORY OF DAMASCUS.
Damascus, which has been figuring in the news from Asia Minor recently, shares with Bagdad the aroma of delicious mystery (in addition to more concrete ones) that harems, camels, hashish, hookahs, Oriental upholstery and the drowsy syrtips of the East so readily convey. It was, however, a great city long before the Turks took it, and the great Ommiade mosque, like the temple of Diana at Ephesus, was a wealthy and much-frequented establishment in pre-Christian days. Restored by the Christian Emperor Arcadius, converted into a mosque by the Caliph Walid, destroyed by fire three years after the battle of Hastings, burned- again by Tamerlane in 1401, and a third time (accidentally) in 1893, it still commands the city that taught the world the inlaying and tempering of metals, the working of leather, the weaving of damasks and other fine fabrics, and the chrystallisation of fruit.
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Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXVII, Issue 4933, 1 February 1926, Page 3
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148HISTORY OF DAMASCUS. Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXVII, Issue 4933, 1 February 1926, Page 3
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