Damascus, Syria (Google Maps ⧉, OpenStreetMap ⧉)

"It was about an American drummer who gets lost in the seraglio of a Damascus merchant and has a lot of fun with the female inmates."

"When Gházán Khan was about to besiege the castle of Damascus in 1300, so much importance was attached to this art that the Governor of the castle offered a reward of 1000 dinars for that personage’s head."

"Damas, i. 65n, Damascus, i. 23n, 143; siege of, ii. 166n"