Aleppo (Catholic Encyclopedia article)
Sophrone Pétridès · 1913
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Description
Aleppo is an Armenian Rite archdiocese in Syria, centred on a city standing on eight little hills in an oasis between the Orontes and the Euphrates. Arab tradition says Abraham lived there and gave milk to all comers, giving the town its name Haleb, while Seleucus Nicator renamed it Beroea. It passed from the Seljukids and other medieval rulers to the Ottoman Turks in 1317, apart from an Egyptian occupation from 1833 to 1839.
In ancient times Aleppo was a trading depot between India, the Tigris and Euphrates lands, and the Mediterranean. It still forwarded the goods of Diyarbekir, Mosul, and Baghdad to Alexandria. Its population of about 127,000 included some 19,200 Catholics of several rites, governed by four Catholic archbishops. Muslims, Jews, and other Christians lived alongside them. French Catholic missions centred there, with Carmelites from 1625, Lazarists, Jesuits from 1873, and Capuchin missions, and the city counted 260 schools.
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| CREATOR | Sophrone Pétridès |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 1913 |
| COLLECTION | REFERENCE |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 3 KB |
| LICENSE | PUBLIC_DOMAIN |
| RIGHTS | PUBLIC DOMAIN |
| SOURCE | New Advent — Catholic Encyclopedia (1913) |