Table of contents:

• Damascus's Home Page: Wanna know about the oldest city in the world? We will tell everything about the history of Damascus. Many pictures were added.
• Syria in a nutshell: the most recent statistics and numbers about Syria provided mostly from the CIA world's facts book. A big map is there too.
• Syria in the Encyclopedia Americana 1997.

• Introduction

• 1. The Land and Natural Resources
1. Coastal Plain.
2. The Mountains.
3. Cities and Cultivable Zone.
4. The Syrian Desert.
5. Natural Resources.
   
   
• 2. The People
1. Variations in Way of Life.
2. Religious Minorities.
3. Education and Communications as a Unifying Force.
4. Population Growth.
   
   
• 3. The Economy
1. Agriculture.
2. Industry.
3. Oil.
4. Labor Force.
5. Transportation and Power.
6. Trade and Finance.
   
   
• 4. History and Government
1. The Arab Conquest.
2. Ottoman Rule.
3. The French Mandate.
4. Independent Syria.
5. THE ASSAD REGIME.
   
   
• Recommended books:
  • Asad of Syria : The Struggle for the Middle East: A very popular book written by Patrick Seale as Hafez Asad requested. However, Patrick Seale wrote many facts that made this book prohibited in Syria.
  • The Struggle for Syria : A Study of Post-War Arab Politics, 1945-1958 Also a good book written by Patrick Seale.
  • The Art of Islam: traces artistic styles from the Umayyad and early Abbasid dynasties (650-750 A.D.) to the Ottoman empire of the 18th and 19th century. The beautiful photographs, most in color, are interspersed with short chapter introductions. Includes a chronology and two maps. This book is NOT ONLY about Syria.
  • Ottoman Province of Damascus in the Sixteenth Century
  • Ebla to Damascus : Art and Archaeology of Ancient Syria
  • Ancient Damascus : A Historical Study of the Syrian City-State from Earliest Times Until Its Fall to the Assyrians in 732 B.C.E.
  • The Dead Sea Scrolls : Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek Texts With English Translations : Damascus Document, War Scroll, and Related Documents.

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• Related sites:
  • Ministry of Tourism of Syria.
  • Syria Online! Available in English, French, and Arabic. Make sure to see thier cool galary.
  • Syria in Arabnet
  • U.S. Army Area Handbook
  • The Syrian Human Rights Committee: Available in English and Arabic.
  • Study Arabic and Islaam in Syria
  • Call Syria for $0.70/min This is the cheepest call I've ever seen from USA.
  • Travel Advisory (U.S. State Department)
  • Human Rights Watch: Syria

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