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The Citadel of Aleppo (Arabic: قلعة حلب, romanized: Qalʿat Ḥalab) is a large medieval fortified palace in the centre of the old city of Aleppo, northern Syria. It is considered to be one of the oldest and largest castles in the world. Usage of the Citadel hill dates back at least to the middle of the 3rd millennium BC.
English: The Citadel of Aleppo is a large medieval fort in the old city of Aleppo, one of the oldest and largest castles in the world, dates back to the middle of the 3rd millennium BC. Aleppo, Syria.
3-D Old Aleppo map; Aleppo news and services (eAleppo) Organization of World Heritage Cities; Ernst Herzfeld Papers, Series 5: Drawings and Maps, Records of Aleppo Archived 2011-10-08 at the Wayback Machine Collections Search Center, S.I.R.I.S., Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. Louis Werner, 4000 Years Behind the Counters in Aleppo ...
This is a list of citadels from around the world. See also List of forts, ... Landskrona Citadel, Sweden; Citadel of Aleppo, Syria (partly destroyed, being rebuilt)
View of the Citadel from the southeast. The present-day visitor entrance is up the hill on the right. For many years up to the late 20th century, the Citadel was closed to the public and used as a military garrison and base; at first by the British Army during the British occupation and afterward up to 1946, and since then by the Egyptian ...
The Citadel of Aleppo is an immense fortification in the centre of the old city of Aleppo, northern Syria. It is considered to be one of the oldest and largest castles in the world. Usage of the Citadel hill dates back at least to the middle of the 3rd millennium BC.
The Aleppo Citadel Museum (Arabic: مَتْحَف قَلْعَة حَلَب, romanized: Matḥaf Qalʿat Ḥalab) is an archaeological museum located in the city of Aleppo, Syria, within the historic Citadel of Aleppo. It was opened in 1994 in the building of Ibrahim Pasha military barracks of the citadel, built in 1834. It occupies an area of ...
On 23 March 2014, rebels captured Kafr Hamra, the Shweihneh strategic hill overlooking west Aleppo [52] and briefly cut off the supply route to Aleppo airport before government troops found another supply route. [53] Rebels also captured the police station on the edge of the citadel, as well as military installations in the Al-Layramoun ...