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The Natural History of Aleppo is a 1756 book by naturalist Alexander Russell on the natural history of Aleppo. In 1794 his half-brother, Patrick Russell, revised and expanded the text in a second edition. The book is significant for its quality, the contemporary interest it attracted, and for being a product of the Scottish Enlightenment. [1]
Russell sailed to Aleppo in 1740, having been appointed physician to the English factory there. He became the city's chief medical practitioner, through gaining the confidence of the local pasha. In 1754 he returned to England and two years later published his The Natural History of Aleppo, with a diary of the progress of the plague in 1742 ...
The Natural History of Aleppo Volume 1 Volume 2 (1794–95) Remarks on the Voluntary Expansion of the Skin of the Neck, in the Cobra de Capello or Hooded Snake of the East Indies. (1804) S. Muthiah (2006) The first snakeman of India. The Hindu. 23 January 2006; Russell, Patrick (1796) An account of Indian serpents, collected on the coast of ...
The Syrian hamster's natural habitat is in a small region of Northwest Syria near the city of Aleppo. [1] It was first described by science in the 1797 second edition of The Natural History of Aleppo, a book written and edited by two Scottish physicians living in Syria. [2] The Syrian hamster was first recognized as a distinct species in 1839. [3]
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Bab al-Jinan (Arabic: بَاب الْجِنَان, romanized: Bāb al-Jinān), meaning the Gate of Gardens, was one of the gates of Aleppo that used to lead to gardens on the banks of the Quwēq river. [1] The gate is thought to have been built by Sayf al-Dawla during his possession of Aleppo between 944 and 967. The gate provided access to the ...
In Aleppo's city centre, the huge billboard in the main square with a picture of President Bashar al-Assad, which used to be a feature in any Syrian town and village, was set on fire, then removed ...
The commercial traditions in Aleppo have deep roots in the history. The Aleppo Chamber of commerce founded in 1885, is one of the oldest chambers in the Middle East and the Arab world. According to many historians, Aleppo was the most developed commercial and industrial city in the Ottoman Empire after Constantinople and Cairo. [19]