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Aleppo

uh-LEH-poh
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A major city in northern Syria, and the region surrounding it.
"Aleppo was once one of the oldest continuously inhabited cities in the world."
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Etymology

Via Italian and French from Ottoman Turkish, from Arabic Halab, of uncertain deeper origin.

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