. Palestine and Syria with the chief routes through Mesopotamia and Babylonia; handbook for travellers;. ^z. ji#^ 9; c n o 1 History. ALEPPO. 46. Route. 375 characteristics. Besides the European residents there are also anumber of Levantines (p. lix). The native industry has been almostentirely supplanted by the European. The imports include all kindsof cloth and other European wares, while the exports consist ex-clusively of raw products, including grain, wool, cotton (the culti-vation of which is increasing), gall-nuts, buckthorn-berries (fordyeing), gums, manna, scammony, saffron, sesame, a
. Palestine and Syria with the chief routes through Mesopotamia and Babylonia; handbook for travellers;. ^z. ji#^ 9; c n o 1 History. ALEPPO. 46. Route. 375 characteristics. Besides the European residents there are also anumber of Levantines (p. lix). The native industry has been almostentirely supplanted by the European. The imports include all kindsof cloth and other European wares, while the exports consist ex-clusively of raw products, including grain, wool, cotton (the culti-vation of which is increasing), gall-nuts, buckthorn-berries (fordyeing), gums, manna, scammony, saffron, sesame, and hides. Fornative consumption, chiefly in the Turkish provinces, silk and cottonstuffs, embroidery, and leather-wares are still manufactured 1902 the value of its exports amounted to 25,000,000 fr. (wool21/2, ewe-milk butter 31/2, hides 23/4, native textiles 2^/^, driedfruits lt/2, and gall-nuts II/4 millions), that of the imports to58,500,000 fr. (cotton 20, woollen and mixed goods 6, silk 5, andgroceries and beverages 4 millions). The Egyptian monumeats testify that Aleppo was in existence t
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