Crossword clues for aleppo
aleppo
- Mideast city
- City of NW Syria
- War-torn Syrian spot
- War-torn Mideast city
- War-torn city of the Middle East
- Third-largest city of the later Ottoman Empire, surpassed only by Constantinople and Cairo
- Syrian metropolis
- Syrian city
- Syrian city with a famous citadel
- Syrian city with 2011 antigovernment protests
- Syrian city near Turkey
- Syrian battle site
- Syria's Zakariyah Mosque city
- Syria's biggest city
- Major city in Syria
- Largest city in Syria
- Great Mosque site
- Embattled Syrian city
- City under siege from 2012 to '16
- 2012 scene of Mideast unrest
- Syrian city on the Silk Road
- City known in ancient times as Beroea
- Syrian hub
- Site of Syria's Great Mosque
- Syrian city of 2 million
- Syrian city of 2.5+ million
- Largest city in Syria before the massive damage of the civil war
- City of Syria
- Battle-torn Syrian city
- A city in northwestern Syria
- City in NW Syria
- Syria's second-largest city
- City in 61 Down
- Second-largest Syrian city
- Historic Syrian city
- Drink very quietly with opposition leader in Syria
- War-torn Syrian city
- Syria's most populous city
- Great Mosque site of Syria
- City in Syria — lop ape (anag)
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Aleppo \Aleppo\ n. 1. a city in Syria.
Wikipedia
Aleppo (; / ALA-LC: , ) is a city in Syria, serving as the capital of the Aleppo Governorate, the most populous Syrian governorate. For centuries, Aleppo was the Syrian region's largest city and the Ottoman Empire's third-largest, after Constantinople and Cairo. With an official population of 2,132,100 (2004 census), it was Syria's largest city and also one of the largest cities in the Levant before the advent of the Syrian Civil War.
Aleppo is an ancient metropolis, and one of the oldest continuously inhabited cities in the world; it has been inhabited since perhaps as early as the 6th millennium BC. Excavations at Tell as-Sawda and Tell al-Ansari, just south of the old city of Aleppo, show that the area was occupied since at least the latter part of the 3rd millennium BC; and this is also when Aleppo is first mentioned in cuneiform tablets unearthed in Ebla and Mesopotamia, in which it is noted for its commercial and military proficiency. Such a long history is attributed to its strategic location as a trading center midway between the Mediterranean Sea and Mesopotamia (i.e. modern Iraq).
The city's significance in history has been its location at one end of the Silk Road, which passed through central Asia and Mesopotamia. When the Suez Canal was inaugurated in 1869, trade was diverted to sea and Aleppo began its slow decline. At the fall of the Ottoman Empire after World War I, Aleppo ceded its northern hinterland to modern Turkey, as well as the important railway connecting it to Mosul. In the 1940s it lost its main access to the sea, Antioch and Alexandretta, also to Turkey. Finally, the isolation of Syria in the past few decades further exacerbated the situation. This decline may have helped to preserve the old city of Aleppo, its medieval architecture and traditional heritage. It won the title of the "Islamic Capital of Culture 2006", and has had a wave of successful restorations of its historic landmarks.
Since the Battle of Aleppo started in 2012, the city has suffered massive destruction, and has been the worst-hit city in the civil war. It is currently split between the government-held west and the rebel-held east.
Aleppo is a city in Syria.
Aleppo may also refer to:
Usage examples of "aleppo".
Hassan of Aleppo seemed to grow huge before my eyes like some ginn of Eastern lore.
And by my supremely rash act I have incurred his vengeance, for Hassan of Aleppo is the self-appointed guardian of the traditions and relics of Mohammed.
Moslem legend, that, since Hassan of Khorassan, there had always been a Sheikh-al-jebal, and that a dreadful being known as Hassan of Aleppo was the present holder of the title.
Hassan of Aleppo seeks to restore the relic to its former restingplace.
Hassan of Aleppo apparently knows as much of our plans as we do ourselves.
But with the scimitar of Hassan of Aleppo stretched over me, with the dangers of the night before me, I was in no mood for a veiled duel of words, for an interchange of glances in thrust and parry, however delightful such warfare might have been with so pretty an adversary.
Could it be that others, in no way connected with the dreadful Hassan of Aleppo, were in quest of the slipper?
Bristol nor I could conceive of any one seeking to possess the bloodstained thing except the mysterious leader of the Hashishin - Hassan of Aleppo - as a creature of that awful fanatic being I had written her down.
Hassan of Aleppo would visit any unbeliever who ventured to lay hand upon the holy, bloody thing.
I wondered if the visitors to the other rooms of the Museum realized, as I realized, that despite the blazing sunlight of tropical London, the shadow of Hassan of Aleppo lay starkly on that haunted building?
In spite of the mysterious activity of Hassan of Aleppo the slipper was safely lodged in the British Antiquarian Museum.
Dexter stole the slipper from the Museum - God knows with what purpose - and that Hassan of Aleppo recovered it from him.
I began seriously to wonder if the arts of Hassan of Aleppo were not as great or greater than the arts of fakir.
Hassan of Aleppo has recovered the slipper and returned to the East, taking his gruesome company with him - God knows how!
I, Hassan of Aleppo, am Sheikh of the Order to-day, and my sacred duty has brought me here.