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Named by ISESCO as the captial of Islamic culture
Located at the crossroads of several trade routes from the 2nd millennium B.C., Aleppo was ruled successively by the Hittites, Assyrians, Arabs, Mongols, Mamelukes and Ottomans. The 13th-century citadel, 12th-century Great Mosque and various 17th-century madrasas, palaces, caravanserais and hammams all form part of the city's cohesive, unique urban fabric, now threatened by overpopulation.
Aleppo or Halab (former Beroea) حلب is the 2nd great city of Syria, north of the republic near the Turkish border, built on a plateau 427 m above sea level, halfway between the Mediterranean and the Euphrates River. A 193 km to the north of Homs (3h) and 350 km to the north of Damascus. A long highway connects it to the south, Hama (2h) and Homs (3h). From Homs is possible to go to Damascus, 335 km, or take the road to the coast and join the Krak des Chevaliers and Tartous. A highway connects to Lattaquia Aleppo through the mountains (185km, 3h30 '). The Lebanese border (5h for Aleppo-Beirut). Nearby there are two border posts, Turkey. One, to N, allowing to reach Gaziantep, one to O, to Antioch. (3h). With nearly 3. million inhabitants (2000) and a very bourgeois society and affluent, is a large shopping mall (since Roman times) and industrial. Marked by its strategic position on trade routes linking two worlds. The Silk Road was here one of its most important sites. Wealthy and cosmopolitan has always had an important political and economic role. Aleppo, "Halab" presumed to be one of the "oldest cities in the world," with Damascus and Hama dispute being
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