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4K UltraHD World Trip travel footage of my Trip to the Capital of Syria - Damascus in late 2019. The next 2 ¼ Hours in this travel video will show you the highlights of Damascus City Center, like the Great Mosque (Umayyad), the famous Al-Hamidiyah Souq (one of the biggest markets/souqs in Asia), the Temple of Jupiter and many more fantastic touristic sights and spots, as well as the wonderful People of Syria; project finished & uploaded on 2020-05-18 by One Man Wolf Pack UltraHD Drone Footage.

▶️ Trailer @ 0:00
▶️ Highlights of Damascus @ 0:34
▶️ The People of Damascus @ 4:00
▶️ City Street Scenes @ 12:15
▶️ Sightseeing in Damascus @ 42:20
▶️ Great Mosque of Damascus Umayyad @ 59:18
▶️ Walking Tour Al-Hamidiyah Souq @ 1:02:50
▶️ Driving at Sunset through Damascus @ 2:02:00

» Media data: This video (Internal ID 646, taken in between 2019 & 2020 and published in 2020) is an extraction of my Damascus 4K Video Footage & Damascus Pictures.

About Damascus: Damascus is the capital of Syria; it is also the countrys largest city, following the decline in population of Aleppo due to the battle for the city. It is colloquially known in Syria as aš-Šām and titled the City of Jasmine. Damascus is a major cultural center of the Levant and the Arab world. The city has an estimated population of 1,711,000 as of 2009. Located in south-western Syria, Damascus is the center of a large metropolitan area of 2.7 million people. Geographically embedded on the eastern foothills of the Anti-Lebanon mountain range 80 kilometres inland from the eastern shore of the Mediterranean on a plateau 680 metres above sea level, Damascus experiences a semi-arid climate because of the rain shadow effect. The Barada River flows through Damascus. First settled in the second millennium BC, it was chosen as the capital of the Umayyad Caliphate from 661 to 750. After the victory of the Abbasid dynasty, the seat of Islamic power was moved to Baghdad. Damascus saw a political decline throughout the Abbasid era, only to regain significant importance in the Ayyubid and Mamluk periods. Today, it is the seat of the central government and all of the government ministries. // Al-Hamidiyah Souq (Arabic: سوق الحميدية‎) is the largest and the central souk in Syria, located inside the old walled city of Damascus next to the Citadel. The souq is about 600 metres (2,000 ft) long and 15 metres (49 ft) wide, and is covered by a 10-metre (33 ft) tall metal arch. The souq starts at Al-Thawra street and ends at the Umayyad Mosque plaza, and the ancient Roman Temple of Jupiter stands 40 feet tall in its entrance. // The Temple of Jupiter in Damascus was built by the Romans, beginning during the rule of Augustus and completed during the rule of Constantius II. // The Umayyad Mosque (Arabic: الجامع الأموي‎), also known as the Great Mosque of Damascus (Arabic: جامع بني أمية الكبير‎, Romanization: Ğāmi Banī Umayya al-Kabīr), located in the old city of Damascus, is one of the largest and oldest mosques in the world. The mosque is also important in Islam because of its historical and eschatological reports and events associated with the mosque.