Show g ar 19 lei de ali 4 aja u g u I 1 4 I 1 E j al 14 i t 0 N I 1 view of aleppo HEN general Allen bys brit W ish troops entered aleppo another nn ollier chango was added holthe to alio long list of changes amati anve conic come to the ancient city whose existence first firs was noted lit in assyrian babylonian and egyptian records under tinder the name of chalop aleppo or chalep was bandied back bach and forth with the swaying fortunes for tunca of those times until it fell before the ho world conquering alexander and ills his macedonian tests hosts then Is when wo we began to 10 hear of it in authentic history says a writer in the kansas city star Se leucus Nl cator was one of the generals who tilde aided philip the fa ther of Alexander in establishing tit HIP macedonian kingdom ile he went with alexander into asia in 13 0 in when lie ho was years old ho he was given the government of the babylonian satrapy which included Klin khaled lep ild he gave the city tile tho name ot baroca and as bercea or klinler be oca it figures historically most of the ume ime for the next years in ili GIB A D it disappeared from european records under the saracen lood flood that swept up tip from the south last when tile tho wild tribes began to assume a sort of settled state under moslem influence it card cai d as tinley helep the gathering place of the great caravans passing from asia minor alinor and vyrin to mesopotamia bagdad and the fler erslan sian and indian kingdoms earthquake and plague in common with most of the towns town of northern syria aleppo suffered frequently from earthquakes after a ter shock late in the twelfth century it had to bo be almost entirely rebuilt but neither earthquake nor the plague to which it was also peculiarly subject could divert fromal from it trade and prosperity and it became one of the commercial capitals of tho the eastern world TUB the city passed under various moslem dynasties being tit at one lime jim the norbern capital of the famous saladin Salad ln tito tilt tartars held it awhile in the thirteenth century then the Mame Nanie lukes I 1 nino nine up from E egypt agypt and too took it holding it under tinder their terrible sway until its final conquest bythe ottomans in 1517 under the strong hand of its now new rulers the trade of aleppo was revived the english had recognized Us its importance as a commercial station and it became the eastern outpost of tie british turkey company AS early as tho the time of elizabeth it was connected with the western outpost ot of tho east india company at bagdad by it ki caravan service its namo naino was familiar la ili the li england ji gland of that period Shake shakespeare refers to it tov oral eral firpes in his Is plays and it appears frequently la the writings of his contemporaries tomp temporaries orar Ns through gli aleppo passed the silks oe 0 bambico bombazines bomba tile light textiles of and many other commodities com for tile tho wealthy find luxurious the discovery of tho the route around the calaor good hope to india was the first blow to tills this trade the second was the opening of it a land route through egypt to the lie lied sea and ana the third and final on one a was the construction of the file suez canal long before canal became a reality Alop lio had been declining from internal causes in the latter part of the eighteenth century und and tile tie first years of alio nineteenth it was constantly the scene ot of bloody dissensions sen seng lons between rival religious and secular parties la in which the ottoman government took part first on one side then the die other plundering both two to earth earthquakes quaLes anti anil three visitations of cholera between 1822 and 1 1833 1 2 dufft the place a wreck with noply halt its former pop population Mation tumults and mas of christians ChrIstans occurred in ili 1850 aud in ili acco accompanied ni panted by bredt destruction st of property its trade lins has revived greatly in recent years but has been largey largely of u local rin nature modern city on ancient site tho the modern city stand on virtually the ancient site tho the older sections are partly within a wall built by the he Sara ens A medieval medi castle on the site ito s 0 of the hie ancient Is deserted lind and in ruins it stands on a ramound virti lir tl 1 artificial and fared faced with stone the alio population of about ISO 00 is three quarters moslem the Puro penn residents mhd armenians Armen ians nil and other native christians and tho the jews nil occupy se separate reparato sections or of iko city the exports are mainly textiles leather and nuth the nearest seaport Is Alex andretta 70 nilles miles away on the lio mediterranean coast A city so 80 old and hot licud by so many peoples with their various religions may be expected to havo have its share of legends and holy places aleppo la in rather disappointing lit in that respect thero there are few shrines of any sort und and till nil of any consequence are dan one of tile the mos mosques quei 70 of which there hero are many contains a tomb reputed to bo be that of zacharias charlas Ka father of john the baptist tito tho turks have long regarded alep po its as one of the strongholds strong holds of their falth faith and the probable capital of their dominion should it they icy bo be forced out of kurono |