Dimashq

English Etymology From en ar دِمَشْق. en Damascus. Proper noun en Damascus: en Damascus Q3766. en Richard F. Nyrop; Beryl Lieff Benderly; William W. Cover; Susan R. MacKnight; Gordon C. McDonald; Newton B. Parker; Suzanne Teleki Physical Environment and Population Area Handbook for Syria DA Pam 550–47 Washington, D.C. U.S. Government Printing Office May 1971 25 https://archive.org/details/areahandbookfors0000rich/page/25/mode/1up 75-177250 Between 1960 and 1970 the population of Dimashq and Halab provinces increased to more than 1.4 million and 1.3 million, respectively, and by 1970 accounted for some 44 percent of the total population. en Alan Walmsley Production, exhange and regional trade in the Islamic East Mediterranean: old structures, new systems? Inge Lyse Hansen; w:Chris Wickham The Long Eighth Century: Production, Distribution and Demand Transformation of the Roman World 11 Leiden Brill 2000 338 https://books.google.com/books?id=F6FbuKU3ZAYC&pg=PA338 90 04 11723 7 The large number of coins from Dimashq can be attributed to Jericho’s placement in that province, yet even so the number is high considering the distance the coins had to travel. en w:Joseph McElroy No Man’s Land Fiction 54 New York, N.Y. w:City College of New York 2008 60 https://books.google.com/books?id=XxcrAQAAIAAJ&q=Dimashq 0046-3736 He had driven a white taxi from Beirut to Dimashq and when his uncle’s cousin had shown up to collect the fare at the post office by the train station, it was how things worked, which always came first. en w:David D. Kirkpatrick; Rod Nordland; Alan Cowell Extradition of Lockerbie bomber ruled out The Gazette Montreal, Que. Postmedia Network Inc. 30 August 2011 A13 https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/426732035/ 6 0384-1294 On Monday, al-Megrahi’s brother, Abel Nasser, spoke to reporters outside the villa, in the posh Dimashq neighbourhood. en w:Kirthi Jayakumar 1 The Doodler of Dimashq: A Heart Wrenching Tale of Hope from Syria’s Rubble New Delhi Readomania 2017 18 https://books.google.com/books?id=n0jhDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA18 978-93-858544-4-6 Someday, my art would adorn every corner of Dimashq. Someday, there would be long rows of children learning to doodle. They could learn to doodle their alif-be-pe-te instead of wrestling with them like I did. References