Damascus is the capital of the Syrian Arab Republic, the second largest Syrian city after Aleppo, and the oldest inhabited capital in the world. The Islamic State in the Umayyad Era; Damascus today is distinguished by its cultural diversity, as it is inhabited by Arabs, Kurds, Turks, Armenians, Assyrians and Circassians. In 2008, Damascus was chosen as the capital of Arab culture, as it is full of many archaeological, historical, cultural and even natural monuments that attract large numbers of tourists to it every year. Through the centuries, buildings with an authentic Arab architectural character and others.