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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 56. Chapters: Ancient Damascus, Buildings and structures inside the walled city of Damascus, Madrasas in Damascus, Ottoman governors of Damascus, Damascus steel, Citadel of Damascus, Umayyad Mosque, Siege of Damascus, List of rulers of Damascus, Abd al-Qadir al-Jaza'iri, Fourth Army, Ahmed Djemal, Turan-Shah, VIII Corps, Mu'in ad-Din Unur, As'ad Pasha al-Azm, Al-Amara, Ahmet efik Mithat Pasha, Hazael, Chapel of Saint Paul, Khan As'ad Pasha, Street Called Straight, Nur al-Din Madrasa, Al-Fadl ibn Salih, Aram Damascus, Jezzar Pasha, Sinan Pasha, As-Salih Ismail, Khan al-Harir, Al-Adiliyah Madrasa, Aqsab Mosque, Mausoleum of Saladin, Sulayman Pasha al-Azm, Eighth Army, State of Damascus, Azm Palace, Al-Rukniyah Madrasa, Al-Zahiriyah Library, Khan Sulayman Pasha, Al-Shamiyah al-Kubra Madrasa, Al-Sahiba Madrasa, Ahmad ibn Ridwan, Qubbat al-Khazna, Al-Salimiyah Madrasa, Jund Dimashq, Lala Kara Mustafa Pasha, Temple of Jupiter, Damascus, House of Saint Ananias, Al-Mujahidiyah Madrasa, Mehmed Selim Pasha, Mehmed Emin Rauf Pasha, Al-Sibaiyah Madrasa, Nur al-Din Bimaristan, Al-Qilijiyah Madrasa, Bayt al-Aqqad, Burid dynasty, Maktab Anbar, Bakdash, Al-Fathiyah Madrasa, Hadadezer, Ben-Hadad I, Beit al-Mamlouka Hotel, Biryawaza. Excerpt: The Citadel of Damascus (Arabic:: Qala'at Dimashq) is a large medieval fortified palace and citadel in Damascus, Syria. It is part of the Ancient City of Damascus, which was listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1979. The location of the current citadel was first fortified in 1076 by the Turkman warlord Atsiz bin Uvak, although it is possible but not proven that a citadel stood on this place in the Hellenistic and Roman periods. After the assassination of Atsiz bin Uvak, the project was finished by the Seljuk ruler Tutush I. The emirs of the subsequent Burid and Zengid dynasties carried out modificatio...
