Format:
XX, 386 S. :
,
Ill. Kt.
Edition:
repr.
ISBN:
0-415-27105-3
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
,
Roads to Damascus -- The emergence of Damascus, 9000-1100 BC -- Dimashqu: Damascus from the Aramaeans to the Persians, 1000-532 BC -- A greater game : Assyrians, Persians, Greeks, 732-300 BC -- The sowing of Hellenism : Ptolemies and Seleucids, 300-64 BC -- Pax Romana, 64 BC-AD 30 -- Metropolis Romana, AD 30-268 -- Holding the line, AD 269-610 -- 'Farewell, oh Syria', 611-750 -- The Umayyads, 661-750 -- Decline, confusion and irrelevance, 750-1008 -- Islam resurgent, 1098-1174 -- Saladin and the Ayyubids, 1174-1250 -- Mamluks 1260-1515 -- The Ottoman centuries, 1516-1840 -- Reform and reaction, 1840-1918.
Language:
English
Subjects:
Art History
Keywords:
Geschichte
