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Aleppo was captured by the Arab armies in 636, during the Muslim conquest of the Levant. Written sources document repairs being made on the citadel after a major earthquake. Little is known about the citadel in the period of early Christianity and Islam, except that Aleppo was a frontier town on the edges of the Byzantine, Ummayad and Abbasid ...
Aleppo was once a thriving city with Western chains, shopping centers, and beautiful mosques. But there's not much left standing anymore. Before-and-after photos show the staggering scale of ...
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.
Palmyra (World Heritage Site), Islamic citadel damaged by gunfire. [4] Old city of Damascus (World Heritage Site) [1] Medieval buildings in the Ancient City of Aleppo (World Heritage Site) [1] [5] Al-Madina Souq in Aleppo, world's largest covered historic market, destroyed and burnt by fire. [6] Great Mosque of Aleppo, damaged during a Syrian ...
Photos released on Wednesday give a new look at the devastation the infamous Syrian city faces after continued bombings. Stark satellite images reveal the destruction wreaked on Aleppo by intense ...
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The Great Mosque of Aleppo (Arabic: جَامِع حَلَب ٱلْكَبِيْر, romanized: Jāmiʿ Ḥalab al-Kabīr) is the largest and one of the oldest mosques in the city of Aleppo, Syria. It is located in al-Jalloum district of the Ancient City of Aleppo , a World Heritage Site , near the entrance to Al-Madina Souq .
Before Syria's ruinous civil war struck Aleppo, the country's largest city was a busy commercial powerhouse and a proud historic center Pictures of splendors past: Aleppo before the war Skip to ...