Aleppo, Syria
Aleppo, Syria; the souq.
A souq is a commercial quarter in an Arab or Berber city. The term is often used to designate the market in any Arabized or Muslim city.
Aleppo is one of the oldest inhabited cities in the world; it knew human settlement since the eleventh millennium B.C; It was known to antiquity as Khalpe, Khalibon, and to the Greeks as Beroea. During the Crusades, and again during the French Mandate, the name Alep was used: “Aleppo” is an Italianised version of this. It occupies a strategic trading point midway between the Mediterranean Sea and the Euphrates. Initially, Aleppo was built on a small group of hills surrounding the prominent hill where the castle is erected.
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