A
modern capital whose
voice - discreet but
assured, moderate but
yet not lacking in feeling
- is having a decisive
effect on the Arab world
and in the Mediterranean
area today. Damascus
is said by its citizens
be "the oldest
continuously inhabited
city in the world".
One other Syrian city,
Aleppo, disputes this
title. However, recent
excavations have shown
that it is the Hama
region (the Orontes
al Lattamne basin) which
really deserves it.
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