Throughout the Ottoman era, this khan hosted caravans coming from Baghdad, Mosul, Aleppo, Beirut and elsewhere in the Middle East. The old city of Damascus is one of the oldest continuously inhabited cities in the world. Many sites are 300 to 1500 years old. Damascus, Syria.
<a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Argenberg" title="User:Argenberg">Vyacheslav Argenberg</a>
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