I fell in love with his home town, Aleppo, as soon as we arrived, weary in the dusk of a balmy, jasmine-scented evening. |
However, I have since found two eighteenth-century accounts of traveling between Aleppo and Damascus by English travelers, who both report staying at a khan in Qutaifah. |
The Aleppo gall has been used since the time of the Greeks as a nonfading ink. |
Despite the new and uniform sandstone buildings that sprawl outward, arriving in old Aleppo felt magical. |
The best Aleppo galls, collected in Asiatic Turkey, principally in the province of Aleppo, are collected before the insects escape. |
In that year, more than 550,000 pounds of Aleppo galls were imported from Turkey. |