[Footnote 61: It appears from Abulfeda (p. 125) and Elmacin
(p. 32) that this d& istinction of the two parts of Damascus
was long remembered, though not Iways respected, by t& he
Mohammedan sovereigns. See likewise Eutychius (Annal. tom.
ii. p. 379, 380, 383).]