When I visited Aleppo with my group the city was splendid and its people extremely welcoming. However today visiting it is very inconvenient since it is one of the cities that has suffered the most destruction due to the civil war and the great monuments that we saw and explain here are very deteriorated.
As we see war is always the same as death and destruction until in the end one realizes that it has been of no use.
Will you accompany me to remember what the great Aleppo was like?
Aleppo is a city located in northern Syria . It has a population of about inhabitants in which makes it the second city in the country after Damascus . It is one of the oldest in the region known in Antiquity as Khalpe Beroea to the ancient Greeks and Halep to the Turks. It is located in a strategic position halfway along the trade route linking the Mediterranean coast and the Euphrates .
Historically population in the city has been documented since at least BC. C. according to Hittite sources . During the Amorite dynasty it was the capital of the kingdom until approximately BC and then it became Hittite again. Later it CXB Directory was Assyrian and Persian. The Greeks took it in BC. C. and Seleucus I Nicátor gave it the name of Beroea . When in BC. C. Syria became part of the Roman Empire the city was also integrated into the domain of Rome .
It was part of the Byzantine Empire until its loss at the hands of the Arabs in the year . In the th century it returned to the Byzantines between and . The crusaders besieged it twice in and but they never conquered it. It passed into the hands of Saladin and remained in the power of the Arabs until its capture by the Mongols in the year . It was then a city of the Ottoman Empire from the year . After the fall of the Ottoman Empire it passed to the French colonial administration. but he returned to Turkey when it recovered Antioch in -. Later it became permanently part of Syria .
THE CITADEL OF ALEPPO
It is a large medieval palace. It is considered one of the largest and oldest castles in the world. The use of the citadel hill dates back to at least the middle of the rd millennium BC. Later it was occupied by people from other civilizations: Greeks Romans Byzantines Mamluks and the Ayyubid dynasty .
Much of the construction is believed to be based on the Ayyubid period. Extensive conservation work took place in the s by the “Aga Khan Foundation for Culture” in collaboration with the Aleppo Archaeological Society .
The castle is considered a historical monument.
The citadel is located on a mound with an elliptical base and a length of meters. In the past the entire mound was covered with large blocks of limestone some of which remain in place today.
The fortified gate is notable accessible over an arched bridge. This feature was an addition of the Mamluk government in the th century. A succession of five right-angled turns and three large doors with carved figures leads to the main entrance of the inner castle.
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