 
 <prompt> text: ```Answer di questions wey dey di end based on di tori.

Damascus na di capital and likely di biggest city of Syria, afta di population of Aleppo reduce sake of di battle for di city. People dey call am "ash-Sham" for Syria and dem dey give am nickname "City of Jasmine". Apart from say e be one of di oldest cities wey people dey live for inside di world, Damascus na major cultural centre for di Levant and di Arab world. Di city get estimated population of 1,711,000.

E dey for south-western Syria, Damascus na di centre of big metropolitan area wey get 2.6 million people (2004). Geographically e dey for di eastern foothills of di Anti-Lebanon mountain range for inside land from di eastern shore of di Mediterranean for top of plateau above sea level, Damascus dey experience semi-arid climate sake of di rain shadow effect. Barada River dey flow through Damascus.

Dem first settle am for di second millennium BC, dem choose am as di capital of di Umayyad Caliphate from 661 to 750. Afta di Abbasid dynasty win, dem move di seat of Islamic power go Baghdad. Damascus see political decline throughout di Abbasid era, but e later regain importance for di Ayyubid and Mamluk periods. Today, e be di seat of central government and all di government ministries.

1. Wetin be di city wey dis tori dey talk about?
2. E dey located where?
3. Why population of Aleppo reduce?
4. Wetin be di city nickname?
5. and di population?
6. E be di oldest city?
7. E be major cultural center of wetin?
8. Wetin river dey flow through am?
9. and why e get semi-arid climate?
10. When dem first settle am?

Numbered answers:``` <response>: ```1. Damascus
2. Syria
3. no
4. the city of Jasmine
5. 1,711,000 .
6. one of them
7. the Levant
8. The Barada River
9. because of the rain shadow effect.
10. in the second millennium BC``` 