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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 Natural History of Aleppo; P. Peter (stratopedarches) Y. Yamhad This page was last edited on 3 March 2016, at 21:47 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative ...
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.
Pinus halepensis, commonly known as the Aleppo pine, also known as the Jerusalem pine, [2] is a pine native to the Mediterranean region.It was officially named by the botanist Philip Miller in his 1768 book The Gardener's Dictionary; he probably never went to Aleppo but mentions seeing large specimens at Goodwood in the garden of the Duke of Richmond, which were transplanted (perhaps sent by ...
When the Crusaders were pillaging the surrounding countryside during the siege of Aleppo in 1124, the city's chief judge, Ibn al-Khashshab, [1] started to convert the cathedral into a mosque during the reign of Belek Ghazi. In 1149, Nur al-Din converted the building into a madrasah; an Islamic-religious school for the followers of the Hanafi ...
Hammam Yalbugha (Arabic: حمام يلبغا) is a Mamluk-era public bath ("hammam") in Aleppo, Syria. It was built in 1491 by the Emir of Aleppo Saif ad-Din Yalbugha al-Naseri. [1] It is located next to the entrance of the Citadel of Aleppo, on the banks of the Quweiq river. [2] The Hammam Yalbugha was damaged during the Syrian war. [3] [4]