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| | Aleppo - by Carol Miller Syria Gate |
 | | The Aleppo market, a city unto itself, evolved from Ghazi's time through the subsequent Mamluk period and especially into the Ottoman era, inside monstrous city walls penetrated by fourteen monumental gateways, to eventually include twelve kilometers of souqs, bordered by the khans, or warehouses, of a million tradesmen. |
 | | The formidable citadel, of exalted proportions, was constantly reinforced, and ever-embellished with greater and more lavish installations, including palaces, aqueduct, cisterns, theater, mosques and baths; and only came to be destroyed by the Mongol invasions that poured through the unprotected frontiers. |
 | | Ghazi's was also a period of science and mathematics. |
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