Syrian tourism (Damascus)

Here the city of Damascus 

Damascus is the capital of the Syrian Arab Republic, and the center of the province of Damascus. [2] It is one of the oldest cities in the world with a history of uninterrupted since a ten thousand years ago, and the oldest city - the capital of the world. became the capital area Syria since 635.
There are several theories to explain the meaning of the name Damascus, most abundant common the fact that the term Semitic old sense of the land irrigated; due to the city's location geographically fertile plain narrated by the Barada River and its branches numerous, constituting Ghota Damascus; and also features a site the city there is a mountain Qasion where.  Damascus stayed confined to the old city until the Middle Ages