He taught medicine and philosophy at Cairo and at Damascus for a number of years, and afterwards, for a shorter period, at Aleppo.

And in the 13th century a Syrian historian from Aleppo includes four references for couscous.

Perhaps remembering attacks launched on Jerusalem from Damascus in previous decades, Damascus seemed to be the best target for the crusade, rather than Aleppo or another city to the north which would have allowed for the recapture of Edessa.

In 1994, Atta's professor, Dittmar Machule, invited him to Aleppo for a three-day archaeological visit.

In this emergency, the emir of Damascus appealed to Saif al-Din ( a cousin of Gumushtigin ) of Mosul for assistance against Aleppo, but he refused, forcing the Syrians to request the aid of Saladin who complied.

The battle ended in a decisive victory for Saladin who pursued the Zengid fugitives to the gates of Aleppo, forcing as-Salih's advisers to recognize Saladin's control of the provinces of Damascus, Homs and Hama, as well as a number of towns outside Aleppo such as Ma ' arat al-Numan.

He thus, handed Aleppo to his brother Imad al-Din Zangi, in exchange for Sinjar.

Before he crossed the Euphrates, Saladin besieged Aleppo for three days, signaling that the truce was over.

An exchange was negotiated where Zangi would hand over Aleppo to Saladin in return for the restoration of his control of Sinjar, Nusaybin, and ar-Raqqa.

Saladin agreed to a truce with Bohemond in return for Muslim prisoners being held by him and then he gave A ' zaz to Alam ad-Din Suleiman and Aleppo to Saif al-Din al-Yazkuj — the former was an emir of Aleppo who joined Saladin and the latter was a former mamluk of Shirkuh who helped rescue him from the assassination attempt at A ' zaz.

It is suspected this explains how the location of the island was certainly known to the English only a few years later, for example, William Barrett ( who died in 1584 as English consul at Aleppo, Syria ) stated the island was “ sixteene degrees to the South ”, which is precisely the correct latitude.

Although different native acacias were used, as was the wood from the local sycamore and tamarisk trees, deforestation in the Nile valley resulted in the need for the importation of wood, notably cedar, but also Aleppo pine, boxwood and oak, starting from the Second Dynasty.

The lack of such discrepancies in the Aleppo Codex is one of the reasons for its importance ; the scribe who copied the notes, presumably Aaron ben Moses ben Asher, probably wrote them originally.

However, no medieval Arabic source has been traced for Aladdin, which was incorporated into The Book of One Thousand and One Nights by its French translator, Antoine Galland, who heard it from an Arab Syrian Christian storyteller from Aleppo.

Important pines for turpentine production include: Maritime Pine ( Pinus pinaster ), Aleppo Pine ( Pinus halepensis ), Masson's Pine ( Pinus massoniana ), Sumatran Pine ( Pinus merkusii ), Longleaf Pine ( Pinus palustris ), Loblolly Pine ( Pinus taeda ) and Ponderosa Pine ( Pinus ponderosa ).

He was confined at Aleppo for the next seventeen years.

No Arabic source has been traced for the tale, which was incorporated into the book One Thousand and One Nights by its French translator, Antoine Galland, who heard it from an Syrian Arab storyteller from Aleppo.

Burckhardt left England in March 1809 for Malta, whence he proceeded, in the following autumn, to Aleppo, Syria in order to perfect his Arabic and study Islamic Law.

Perhaps inspired by the contemporary Turkish War of Independence ( 1919-1921 ), similarly, the Great Revolt for Syrian Independence began in the countryside of Jabal al-Druze, led by Sultan al-Atrash, as a Druze uprising ; the movement was adopted by a group of Syrian nationalists led by Dr Abd al-Rahman Shahbandar and spread to the States of Aleppo, Damascus.

This was published at Leiden at the instigation of Gerard Vossius in 1630, and in the same year Pococke sailed for Aleppo as chaplain to the English factor.

Chroniclers also give accounts of the political connotations of their relationships ; the ghulam Fatik, for example, briefly governed Aleppo for the Fātimids before being murdered in his sleep by his ghulam lover.

* Barad, an ancient settlement, located west of Aleppo, has many old basilicas ; for example, the Saint Julianus Maronite monastery ( 399-402 AD ) where the shrine of Saint Maron is located, and a basilica at the northern part of the village built in 561.

The largest massacre was at Antioch, where 5, 000 Druze religious leaders were killed, followed by that of Aleppo.

Aleppo ( population 2, 301, 570 ) in northern Syria is the largest city.

It is the 5th largest city in Syria after Aleppo, Damascus, Homs and Hama.

Abbasid Caliphate ( 750-1513 ), Islamic Architecture peaked in the Abbasid era, cities such as Baghdad, Damascus, Aleppo were of the largest cities ever.

Born in Syria's largest city Aleppo in 1944, he studied architecture and has a diploma in urban planning from the Netherlands.

After Ḥajj Ibn ‘ Arabī left Mecca, travelling north towards the Roman lands, probably Konya or Malatya and in the year 610 / 611 he returned to Aleppo.

* Antiochia ad Taurum, in Cilicia later in Commagene, probably now Gaziantep ( less probably, Aleppo, Syria )

Arpad ( probably modern Tell Rifaat, Syria ) was an ancient Aramaean city located in north-western Syria, north of Aleppo.

Mehmed I probably allied himself with Radwan of Aleppo in the battle of Khabur river against Kilij Arslan I, the sultan of Rüm, in 1107, in which the latter was defeated and killed.

He was certainly present at the Battle of Ager Sanguinis in 1119, in which Roger was defeated and killed by Ilghazi, and Walter was probably taken into captivity for a brief time in Aleppo.

Birtha is presently the ( Latin ) name of a Roman Catholic titular see in the former Roman province of Osrhaene, probably identical with modern Birejik ( Ancient Ze ( u ) gma ) on the left bank of the Euphrates, c. 62 miles west of Orfa ( Edessa ), and 95 miles north of Aleppo.

This produced what was probably the first white ( Aleppo soap tends to be green ) hard soap, which hardened further as it aged, without losing its whiteness, forming jabón de Castilla.

The Church of Saint Simeon Stylites in Aleppo, Syria is considered to be one of the oldest surviving church buildings in the world.

The oldest extant manuscripts of the Masoretic Text date from approximately the 9th century CE, and the Aleppo Codex ( once the oldest complete copy of the Masoretic Text, but now missing its Torah section ) dates from the 10th century. The Nash Papyrus ( 2nd century BCE ) contains a portion of a pre-Masoretic Text, specifically the Ten Commandments and the Shema Yisrael prayer.

Ben Asher is also credited with putting the finishing touches on the Aleppo Codex, the oldest existing manuscript of the Hebrew scriptures.

Umm el-Marra,, east of modern Aleppo in the Jabbul Plain of northern Syria, was one of the ancient Near East's oldest cities, located on a crossroads of two trade routes northwest of Ebla, in a landscape that was much more fertile than it is today.

The Aleppo Codex, against which the Leningrad Codex was corrected, is several decades older, but parts of it have been missing since 1947, making the Leningrad Codex the oldest complete codex of the Tiberian mesorah that has survived intact to this day.

The museum also holds other rare ancient manuscripts and displays The Aleppo Codex, which is from the 10th-century and is believed to be the oldest complete Bible in Hebrew.

* Church of Saint Simeon Stylites ( Deir Semaan ), is one of the most celebrated ecclesiastical monuments in Syria and among the oldest standing Christian churches in the world. It is located about northwest of Aleppo.