Damascus mit dem Baradafluss.

Title

Damascus mit dem Baradafluss.

Description

General view of the city of Damascus with the Barada River.

ca. 1860

Artist

Saddler

Historical Description

Damascus is the capital and likely the largest city of Syria. Nicolaus of Damascus, in the fourth book of his History, says thus: "Abraham reigned at Damascus, being a foreigner, who came with an army out of the land above Babylon, called the land of the Chaldeans: but, after a long time, he got him up, and removed from that country also, with his people, and went into the land then called the land of Canaan, but now the land of Judea, and this when his posterity were become a multitude; as to which posterity of his, we relate their history in another work. Now the name of Abraham is even still famous in the country of Damascus; and there is shown a village named from him, The Habitation of Abraham.