Aleppo
Subtitle: The Rise and Fall of Syria's Great Merchant City
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc; I.B. Tauris
Published: 2016
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781784534615
Subjects: Syria, history
Description: The first half is a history of Aleppo, its social classes and their conflicts, its legacy of tolerance, and its mixed population of Muslims, Christians, and Jews; Arabs, Turks, and Westerners, until the recent civil war. The second half is excerpts from the writings of fifteen Western travelers or inhabitants.--