Dimashq

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Dimashq

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From Arabic دِمَشْق (dimašq). Doublet of Damascus.

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Synonym of Damascus: The capital city of Syria; an ancient settlement, the ancient capital of various polities, most notably the Umayyad Caliphate from 661 to 744 CE and Aram-Damascus, existing from the 12th to 8th centuries BCE. 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.
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@misc{dimashq_2026,
  title = {Dimashq},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/dimashq},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}