Aleppo (pre-Ottoman) - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE
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Eddé, Anne-Marie
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Leiden
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Brill
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Pre-Ottoman Aleppo , in northern Syria, was ruled by many dynasties from the Islamic conquest until the arrival of the Ottomans in 922/1516. The second city of the country, after Damascus, it has a history going back to the twentieth century B.C.E. For centuries, it benefited from its position at a crossroads between Europe and Asia, the Mediterranean and Iraq, Anatolia and Arabia. According to a popular legend in the Middle Ages, the name Aleppo (Ḥalab) came from the Arabic verb ḥalaba (to milk) because Abraham would