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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 ...
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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]
The work was partly modelled on Alexander Russell's The Natural History of Aleppo (1756). [24] Lane visited Egypt again in 1833 in order to collect materials to expand and revise the work, after the Society had accepted the publication. [25] The book became a bestseller (still in print), and Lane earned his reputation in the field of Orientalism.
Aleppo. Notes from the Dark; Baladna alraheeb; The Cow Farm; False Alarm; From My Syrian Room; Haunted; Nediyari; The Islamic State (documentary) Flames of War: The Fighting Has Just Begun; Of God and Dogs; Red Lines; The Road to Aleppo; Silvered Water, Syria Self-Portrait; Suleima; A Syrian Tale; Trip Along Exodus; Wajd: Music, Politics, & Ecstasy
The film shows Waad al-Kateab's life through five years in Aleppo, Syria before and during The Battle of Aleppo.An economics student at the University of Aleppo when the uprising began in 2011, we watch as she falls in love, gives birth to her first daughter Sama and navigates motherhood all while the conflict begins to engulf the city.
The Ancient City of Aleppo (Arabic: مدينة حلب القديمة, romanized: Madīnat Ḥalab al-Qadīma) is the historic city centre of Aleppo, Syria. Prior to the Syrian Civil War , many districts of the ancient city remained essentially unchanged since they were initially constructed between the 11th and 16th centuries.