Damascus
Damascus is the capital of Syria, the oldest capital in the world and, according to some, the fourth holiest city in Islam. Known colloquially in Syria as aš-Šām and dubbed, poetically, the "City of Jasmine", Damascus is a major cultural center of the Levant and the Arab world.
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Khatun Safwat al-Mulk
Ibn al-Salah
Author
Ibn al-Baitar
Physician
Jamal al-Din al-Mizzi
Biographer
Muhammad Jamaluddin al-Makki al-Amili
Scholar
Khâlid-i Shahrazuri
Islamic mystic
Mehmed Selim Pasha
Statesman
Ibn Abidin
Jurist
Tawfiq Qabbani
Nizar Qabbani's father
Marie Jubran Musician
Soprano
Nabih al-Azma
Military personnel
Nur al-Din Kahala
Syrian Politician
Ahmad al-Khatib
Former President of Syria
Mahmoud Hammad
Syrian painter
Bashir al-Azma
Former Prime Minister of Syria
Fateh Moudarres
Syrian painter
Abu Darda
Teacher
Asma bint Umais
Ja'far ibn Abi Talib's wife
Mu'awiya I
Governor of Roman Syria
Muawiya
Former Caliph
Ruqayyah bint Husayn
Husayn ibn Ali's daughter
Zaynab bint Ali
Ali's daughter
Maysun bint Bahdal
Author ‧ Mu'awiya I's wife
Khalid ibn Yazid
Alchemist
Tariq ibn Ziyad
Commander
Rezin
King Rezin
Al-Farabi
Philosopher
Eli Cohen
Former football player
Dina Haroun
Syrian TV actress
Robert the Leper
Nur ad-Din
Died 1174
Ibn Taymiyyah
Theologian
Hanna Mina
Syrian novelist
E. Brooke Lee
Politician
assef shawkat
Former Deputy Minister of Defense of Syria
Anisa Makhlouf
Former First Lady of Syria
Alois Brunner
Hasan Turkmani
Syrian military commander
Rustum Ghazaleh
Syrian military officer
Dawoud Rajiha
Syrian senior officer
Salah Jadid
Syrian general
Marwan I
Abu Daoud
Palestinian planner
Saladin
Former Sultan of Egypt
Fouad Salem
Iraqi singer
Konrad Swinarski
Polish film director