Aleppo is an ancient city in northern Syria, one of the oldest inhabited cities in the world. It is famous for its great citadel on a hill in its centre and its long covered markets, and through the ages it was a great trading city on the caravan routes.
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Aleppo
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Aleppo is a city in northern Syria, among the oldest continuously inhabited cities in the world; its beacon is the famous citadel on a hill in its centre. It flourished in the Hamdanid, Ayyubid, Mamluk and Ottoman eras, and was a crossroads between the Mediterranean, the Euphrates, Anatolia and Mesopotamia, so its covered markets gathered the goods of East and West. The sources record that Hulagu took it in 658 AH after a short siege, and that the Ottoman Selim I took it from the Mamluks in 922 AH. Several stories are told about its name: from milk, from the giants' building, and others.
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