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Definition of Capital of Syria

1. Noun. An ancient city (widely regarded as the world's oldest) and present capital and largest city of Syria; according to the New Testament, the Apostle Paul (then known as Saul) underwent a dramatic conversion on the road to Damascus.

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Literary usage of Capital of Syria

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (1887)
"... glory and success, he made a progress through his : 'in i nions of Asia, and at length fixed his residence in the implore IL<- capital of Syria, ..."

2. Dictionary of the Apostolic Church by James Hastings, John Alexander Selbie, John Chisholm Lambert (1918)
"Antioch remained the capital of Syria till the time of Septimius Severus, who gave the honour to Laodicea (now Latakia), making it a colonia. ..."

3. Commentary on St. Paul's Epistle to the Romans by Frédéric Louis Godet (1883)
"Some Christian emigrants from Jerusalem reach this capital of Syria shortly ... Let us transfer this scene from the capital of Syria to the capital of the ..."

4. The New American Cyclopaedia: A Popular Dictionary of General Knowledge by George Ripley (1862)
"In 054 Damascus again became the capital of Syria and of the great Mohammedan empire. The great cities of Syria, which had scarcely yielded to any in the ..."

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