Syrian city is the second city after the capital Damascus in all respects, is located in the north-west of Syria and has a population of about two million people and is the commercial center in the past and now has widened its old trade to reach India, China and the far reaches of Europe and elsewhere. Therefore find fields that were built in the thirteenth century has turned into the headquarters for the establishment of foreign communities and European ones in particular.
And to the present day is the Aleppo important commercial center which is an important industrial center. They also ancient archaeological city, was part of the Hittite Empire (second millennium BC) and annexation by the Assyrians in 738 BC.. And remained under ruled Okhminyin until Alexander the Great came.
Having become the property of Sloqos Nikator occupied by the Romans in the year (65) BC.. And demolished the Persians after them and the Muslims entered Aleppo peaceful led Asahabian Abu Abeida and Khalid ibn al-Walid, may God be pleased with Antioch door and stood inside the door and put Otrashm in place, built in that place a mosque dates back to the first century AH.
Has been known Aleppo boom period during the reign of the Abbasid Caliphate even make Hmedaon them Emirate independent and prosperous, and then signed in (1015) under the Fatimids then Seljuk (1086 1117) and then Alzenkyin and Ayyubids and conquered Hulagu (commander Tatar) and destroyed in 1260 and then ruled the Mamluks and later the Ottomans ( 1516 1918) and made it a mandate. In 1920, make it the French base of an independent state.
It features Aleppo archaeological Great Mosque (Mosque of Prophet Zakaria bin Yahya peace be upon him), where the tomb of him Umayyad Mosque was built in the Umayyad period, which was home to the Byzantine era orchard of the Church Great, and what Muslims conquered Aleppo Make peace people on the subject of the mosque, which was built in Prince Walid bin Abdul Malik, or in the early years of his brother Solomon. The times demolished and new, and the famous castle of Aleppo, which was the capital of the state of Hamdania which reached its zenith during the reign of Seif al-Dawla al-Hamdani, who more than the Roman invasion.
In the face of the castle and near the school Bowl school is located Alkhsroeh (which is about a mosque, a school and hospice) which is built Khosrow Pasha Ottoman who was the ruler of Aleppo from 1537, and the Whole now contains secondary legitimacy that teach forensic science and cosmic and granted a certificate (BAC). Thus was the mosques Mrakza of worship, science and social philanthropy.
Were counted in Aleppo more than (60) ancient archaeological school and more than 25 religious and educational angle, and Aleppo is today the second largest city of Syria after Damascus. And is characterized by being an important industrial center because many heavy industry plants in addition to being a prominent trade center by virtue of its strategic location near Turkey and Iraq.
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