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Aleppo ( / ə ˈ l ɛ p oʊ / ; Arabic : ﺣﻠﺐ / ALA-LC : Ḥalab , IPA: [ˈħalab] ) is the largest city in Syria and it serves as the capital of the Aleppo Governorate , the most populous Syrian governorate . With an official population of 2,132,100 (2004 census), it is also one of the largest cities in the Levant . For centuries, Aleppo was the Syrian region 's largest city and the Ottoman Empire 's third-largest, after Constantinople and Cairo .
Aleppo is one of the oldest continuously inhabited cities in the world ; it has been inhabited since perhaps as early as the 6th millennium BC. Excavations at Tell as-Sawda and Tell al-Ansari, just south of the old city of Aleppo, show that the area was occupied since at least the latter part of the 3rd millennium BC; and this is also when Aleppo is first mentioned in cuneiform tablets unearthed in Ebla and Mesopotamia , in which it is noted for its commercial and military proficiency. Such a long history i
Aleppo is a city in Syria.