Aleppo: Before now
Recently I heard of the war going on in Aleppo a city in Syria. I was then curious to know what the city was like before the war. Five years ago it was one of the most beautiful city one would come across. But now it is all in ruins. The city had spent centuries evolving into the country's largest industrial and commercial hub and is one of the oldest inhabited cities in human history. It was added to UNESCO's World Heritage Aleppo is a city in Syria, serving as the capital of the Aleppo Governorate, the most populous Syrian governorate . For centuries, Aleppo was the Syrian region's largest city and the Ottoman Empire's third-largest, after Constantinople and Cairo . With an official population of 2,132,100 (2004 census), it was Syria's largest city and also one of the largest cities in the Levant before the advent of the Syrian Civil War . Aleppo is an ancient metropolis, and one of the oldest continuously inhabited cities in the world; it may have been inhabite