Dimashq

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.

1971 May, Richard F. Nyrop, Beryl Lieff Benderly, William W. Cover, Susan R. MacKnight, Gordon C. McDonald, Newton B. Parker, Suzanne Teleki, “Physical Environment and Population”, in Area Handbook for Syria (DA Pam 550–47), Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, →LCCN, page 25

The large number of coins from Dimashq can be attributed to Jericho’s placement in that province, yet even so the number is high considering the distance the coins had to travel.

2000, Alan Walmsley, “Production, exhange and regional trade in the Islamic East Mediterranean: old structures, new systems?”, in Inge Lyse Hansen, Chris Wickham, editors, The Long Eighth Century: Production, Distribution and Demand (Transformation of the Roman World; 11), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 338

He had driven a white taxi from Beirut to Dimashq and when his uncle’s cousin had shown up to collect the fare at the post office by the train station, it was how things worked, which always came first.

2008, Joseph McElroy, “No Man’s Land”, in Fiction, number 54, New York, N.Y.: City College of New York, →ISSN, page 60

Someday, my art would adorn every corner of Dimashq. Someday, there would be long rows of children learning to doodle. They could learn to doodle their alif-be-pe-te instead of wrestling with them like I did.

2017, Kirthi Jayakumar, chapter 1, in The Doodler of Dimashq: A Heart Wrenching Tale of Hope from Syria’s Rubble, New Delhi: Readomania, →ISBN, page 18