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Aleppo : the rise and fall of Syria's great merchant city

Mansel, Philip, 1951- author

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\"Aleppo lies in ruins. Its streets are plunged in darkness, most of its population has fled. But this was once a vibrant world city, where Muslims, Christians and Jews lived and traded together in peace. Few places are as ancient and diverse as Aleppo - one of the oldest, continuously inhabited cities in the world - successively ruled by the Assyrian, Persian, Greek, Roman, Arab, Ottoman and French empires. Under the Ottomans, it became the empire's third largest city, after Constantinople and Cairo. It owed its wealth to its position at the end of the Silk Road, at a crossroads of world trade, where merchants from Venice, Isfahan and Agra gathered in the largest suq in the Middle East. Throughout the region, it was famous for its food and its music. For 400 years British and French consuls and merchants lived in Aleppo; many of their accounts are used here for the first time\"-- Publisher's description.

• Publisher: I.B. Tauris
• Subject: Aleppo (Syria) History. / Aleppo (Syria) Social life and customs.
• ISBN: 9781784538477, 1784538477

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Call Number	Copies	Material	Location
DS99.A56 M36 2018	1	BOOK	AUTOSTORE