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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; 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 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.
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]
Queiq River in downtown Aleppo, 2011. The Queiq [1] (Modern Standard Arabic: قُوَيْقٌ, Quwayq, ; northern Syrian Arabic: ʾWēʾ, ), with many variant spellings, [5] it was known to the Greeks in antiquity as the Belus in (Ancient Greek: Βήλος, Bēlos), [3] the Chalos and also known in English as the Aleppo River is an endorheic river and valley of the Aleppo Governorate, Syria ...
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 is located along the northern part of the Dead Sea Transform system of geologic faults, which is a plate boundary separating the Arabian plate from the African plate. The earthquake was the beginning of the first of two intense sequences of earthquakes in the region: October 1138 to June 1139 and a much more intense and a later series ...