A·lep·po (ə-lěp
ō) also
A·lep (ə-lěp
)
A city of northwest Syria near the Turkish border. Inhabited perhaps as early as the sixth millennium
B.C., Aleppo was a key point on the caravan route across Syria to Baghdad and later a major center of Christianity in the Middle East. Population: 1,542,000.
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