ALEPFO PAST AND
IPRESENT.
arday's telegram amoureing Geperat
abg'a ceremonial entry into Aleppo makes the following from the latest copy of The Times very timely.
If Aleppo, placed slmost midway between she Euphrates and the sen, wan' groat. centre of human traffic before the dim beginnings of known history. Its perodeab days were before the discovery of the son mate to India. Through Aleppo passed" the main way of carvana. Its comarce prize which. Vasatian "moraba nita ald for years, and when the fortunes of Vandor waned British merchants becaine predominat in the mart of Aleppo..
The modern city itself stands on bath banks of the Kswalk, with its gardens Spreading for miss along the river banks. -I has something less than 150,000 La
habitants, of whom, about itree-quarters are Moslems. The Turks hold it in To- arerence as one of the strong places of their faith, and have been credited with the idea. of using it for their capital if they should 1080 Constantinople.
Khalep was its name in Syrien times and before. Barcos it became under Mando 'mían conquest, but the more soient name: persisted, and when the Saracens conquered It is 4.D. 698 Peroes disappeared, and as Halep it became known to the whole Mos. lem world. Thereafter it was the prize of.) "many conquerors, though is resisted the eraasding princes of Ast-tch in 1124. Th feito Saladin, to the Mamelukas, and at Just in the Ottomans in 1917. They revivi ed and comolidated its fame as a traing cent d
The Elizabethune had it as a familiar nime. Her husband's to Aleppo gone, master of the Tiger," says the First Witch in Macbeth; and Othelre, at the moment of quickie, excl.im
--And say besides that in Aleppo e ca.
Where a malignant and a turbared
Tark
Best Venetian and traduced the
Stare,
I took by the that the circumcized :-dog
41
And smota kim, khus. «Now the malignant and the furtared Turk has been driven from Aleppo, and
a domination that has lasted, wi b', one interlade, since the seventh century ends at leat for a time.-wer.
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