Qadam () is a

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and a neighborhood in the southern part of

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, due west of Yarmouk Camp.

History

Prior to its urbanization and integration into Damascus municipality al-Qadam was a village on the

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caravan road called al-Qadam al-Sharif (the Noble Foot). It was named after a stone originally from

Bosra Bosra (), formerly Bostra () and officially called Busra al-Sham (), is a town in southern Syria, administratively belonging to the Daraa District of the Daraa Governorate and geographically part of the Hauran region. Bosra is an ancient cit ...

where tradition holds an imprint was left of the foot of the

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when he visited the city. The stone had been relocated from Bosra to a mosque in al-Qadam. The area saw heavy fighting during the Syrian civil war, given the strategic importance of the Qadam train station.

Districts

Al-Asali Al-Asali () is a neighborhood and district of the Qadam municipality in Damascus, Syria. It had a population of 21,731 in the 2004 census. The neighborhood was built around the small al-Asali maqam (shrine), named after Shaykh Ahmad al-Asali al-K ...

(pop. 21,731) *Dahadil (pop. 14,310) *Jouret al-Shreibati (8,836) *Al-Mustafa (pop. 9,218) *Al-Qadam (pop. 18,649) *Qadam Sharqi (pop. 4,022) *Al-Sayyidah Aisha (pop. 19,178)

References

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