1. The Umayyads were finally overthrown and the first Abbasid, Abul-Abbas, took the throne.

2. The Arab empire, ruled by the Umayyad Dynasty, was the largest state in history up to that point.

3. Umayyad Square in Damascus, Syria, tens of thousands of Syrians holding national flags and portraits of Bashar al-Assad, shouting slogans, emotionally.

4. The way was now clear for the emergence of the Umayyad caliphate, with Damascus as its capital.

4. Wish you will love and make progress everyday!

5. By 750 the time had come for the caliphate itself to be transformed and for the Umayyad regime to be dislodged.

6. 3 p.m. - We're back in the old city and the Umayyad Mosque is a must.

7. 00 - More nightlife, and this time it is the Zee Bar at Umayyad Hotel on Brazil Street.

8. It was the center of the orthodox caliphate until 661, when the Umayyad caliphate, ruling from Damascus, took over.

9. Fought somewhere, now precisely unknown, between Tours and Poitiers, an army of Franks and Burgundians under Charles Martel defeated the forces of the Umayyad Caliphate.

10. U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, visited Dabdoub near the Umayyad Mosque when she came to Damascus this year.

11. Stretch your legs at al-Nofara cafe, next to the Umayyad mosque, which is popular with tourists and Damascenes alike.

12. In its south, a region the Arabs called al-Andalus, a Syrian Umayyad prince whose dynasty had been replaced by the Abbasids established a kingdom and a burgeoning civilization around the year 750.