Syria: Brassware artisan in the ancient Great Bazaar, Aleppo (1997). Aleppo's Great Bazaar (in Arabic, suq or souq) was rebuilt first by the Egyptian Mamelukes who drove out the Mongols, and then, after 1516, by the Turks who incorporated Aleppo into the Ottoman Empire. During the Syrian Civil War, which started in 2011, Aleppo's historic suqs suffered serious damage. Aleppo, the second city of Syria is possibly the longest continually inhabited settlement in the world. Its Arabic name, Halab, is mentioned in Semitic texts of the third millennium BCE.

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Syria: Brassware artisan in the ancient Great Bazaar, Aleppo (1997). Aleppo's Great Bazaar (in Arabic, suq or souq) was rebuilt first by the Egyptian Mamelukes who drove out the Mongols, and then, after 1516, by the Turks who incorporated Aleppo into the Ottoman Empire. During the Syrian Civil War, which started in 2011, Aleppo's historic suqs suffered serious damage. Aleppo, the second city of Syria and quite possibly the longest continually inhabited settlement in the world, is of venerable age. So old, indeed, that its Arabic name, Halab, is first mentioned in Semitic texts of the third millennium BCE.

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