Earth color of the ancient city's stone walls and desert surroundings.
Damascene is a muted brown.
It can be described as muted, mellow, dull and fairly saturated.
Set in black, because black reads best on it.
Damascus is the capital and largest city of Syria. It is the oldest capital city in the world. Known colloquially in Syria as aš-Šām and dubbed, poetically, the "City of Jasmine", Damascus is a major cultural center of the Levant and the Arab world.
Read on WikipediaDamascena or Damascene was the ancient term for the territory surrounding the city of Damascus in Hellenistic, Roman and Byzantine Syria. Although never a formal province, Damascena was frequently mentioned in Greek and Latin sources. The territory corresponds roughly to the modern Rif Dimashq Governorate of Syria.
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