The Assyrians, Babylonians, Persians, Armenians, Greeks, and Romans took control of Damascus. Some of them had long days there like the Romans. They ruled it for seven hundred years, and Greece ruled it for 269 years. Among them were those who had a castle like the Armenians. They took control of it for eighteen years. The Damascenes were the ones who summoned the owner of Armenia when they were fed up. The Romans and Pharaohs disputed over it, and most likely the Pharaohs did not seize Damascus, and were content with it By seizing its coast more than once, it fell into the hands of Alexander the Great, then into the hands of his Seleucid successors, and in their days Damascus was Hellenistic Greek, just as it was in many eras Syriac-Aramaic. The situation of Damascus during calamities was like that of major capitals. If the security cord of the countries neighboring it was disturbed, it would also be disturbed. This city did not know the taste of happiness during most of the days of the Romans, and it was miserable with them especially at the end of their reign. Rome did not consider its people to be Roman patriots, but rather to strangers and subjects, and many others. The Damascenes would not sell their children in order to pay the tribute that Rome charged them.