Aleppo
Aleppo (Arabic: حلب ['Halab], Turkish: [Halep] Error: {{Lang}}: text has italic markup (help), Greek: Αλέππο) is a city in northwestern Syria. From 2012 to 2016 it was a battlefield in the Syrian civil war.
In 2010 it had an official population of 4.6 million.[1] Then, Aleppo was the largest Syrian city. After 2010, however, Aleppo is probably the second-largest city in Syria after the capital Damascus.
Aleppo is one of the oldest continuously lived in (lived in all the time) cities in the world. People may have arrived in the 6th millennium BC.[2]
There was a large earthquake near Aleppo in 1138.
Aleppo Media
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Hadad Temple inside Aleppo Citadel
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Al-Qaiqan Mosque was originally a Hittite pagan temple during ancient times; in addition, a stone block with Anatolian hieroglyphs can be found on the southern wall.
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Beroea as it is shown in Tabula Peutingeriana
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The Mosque of Abraham in the Citadel of Aleppo, originally built by the Byzantines as a church
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Great Umayyad Mosque of Aleppo, established in the 8th century
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The old walls of Aleppo and the Gate of Qinnasrin restored in 1256 by An-Nasir Yusuf
Souq az-Zirb, where coins were struck during the Mamluk period
References
- ↑ "بـ 4.6 ملايين نسمة .. محافظة حلب الأعلى سكانياً في سورية - عكس السير دوت كوم". www.aksalser.com. Archived from the original on 2017-09-17. Retrieved 2018-05-26.
- ↑ Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th edition, 2010.
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