Name: Larissa
Address: Larissa, Anatolia

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Aleppo

Aleppo is a city in northern Syria on the river Kuwayk, among the oldest inhabited cities in the world, first mentioned in the twentieth century BC. It became a Hamdanid capital under Sayf al-Dawla in 333 AH, prospered under the Zangids and Ayyubids, and was stormed by the Mongols in 658 AH. It was then Mamluk and later Ottoman, and in Ottoman times became the principal market of the Levant.

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