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[[File:Aleppo.jpg|thumb|Aleppo in 2009]]

'''Aleppo''' ({{lang-ar|حلب}} ['Halab], {{lang-tr|Halep}}, {{lang-el|Αλέππο}}) is a [[city]] in northwestern [[Syria]].  From 2012 to 2016 it was a battlefield in the [[Syrian civil war]].  

In 2010 it had an official population of 4.6 million.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.aksalser.com/?page=view_news&id=dea2316c19d685faf12f9850768f87b7|title=بـ 4.6 ملايين نسمة .. محافظة حلب الأعلى سكانياً في سورية - عكس السير دوت كوم|website=www.aksalser.com|access-date=2018-05-26|archive-date=2017-09-17|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170917033118/http://www.aksalser.com/?page=view_news&id=dea2316c19d685faf12f9850768f87b7|url-status=dead}}</ref> Then, Aleppo was the largest Syrian city. After 2010, however, Aleppo is probably the second-largest city in Syria after the capital [[Damascus]].

Aleppo is one of the oldest continuously lived in (lived in all the time) cities in the world. People may have arrived in the 6th millennium [[BC]].<ref>''Columbia Encyclopedia'', 6th edition, 2010.</ref> 

There was a [[1138 Aleppo earthquake|large earthquake]] near Aleppo in 1138.

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