Damascena

alternative Damascene

1. A historical region of Syria. Capital: Damascus.

   Damascus, dă-masˈ-cus, an ancient and wealthy city of Damascena, dă-mas-cēˈ-na, the district of Syria near Mount Libănus.

   1871, Samuel Orchart Beeton, Beeton's Classical Dictionary, page 99

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   Beſides this, all Judæa and Iſrael were now maſtered to his hands; all the Arabians his borderers, the Syrians of Zobah, of Damaſcena, of Palmyrena, of Ituræa; all of Idumæa, Moab, and Ammon, paid him tribute; as likewiſe did the Hittites, who with the Perizzites, Hevites, Jebuſites, and other races of the Canaanites, were not as yet extinguiſhed, though ſubjected.

   1614, Walter Raleigh, The Historie of the World, page 419