What city is this article talking about?
Damascus
Located where?
Syria
Why did the population of Aleppo go down?
no
What is the city's nickname?
the city of Jasmine
and the population?
1,711,000 .
Is it the oldest city?
one of them
Its a major cultural center of wht?
the Levant
What river flows through it?
The Barada River
and why is there a semi arid climate ther?
because of the rain shadow effect.
When was it first settled?
in the second millennium BC