Welcome to a new video from Syria Street that takes you on an enjoyable car tour through the streets of Aleppo as they were in 2010, before the crisis. Enjoy the daily scenes and how life was in its streets.

In this video, we will drive through various streets and neighborhoods in Aleppo, and you will see:

Daily traffic and street atmosphere.
Shops, restaurants, and cafes.
People going about their daily lives.
Residential areas and local markets.
This tour will be a chance to bring back memories for those who visited Aleppo before, and to get to know the city for those who have never been. We will show you real scenes reflecting the simple life and unique atmosphere of Aleppo's streets before the recent events.

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Aleppo is a city in northern Syria and the center of Aleppo Governorate, which is the largest Syrian governorate in terms of population, with an official population exceeding 4.6 million (estimates of 2004). It is considered the economic capital of Syria. Aleppo is located in northwest Syria, 310 km (193 miles) from Damascus. It is the largest city in the Levant and was the capital of the Amorite Kingdom of Yamhad. Throughout history, it was ruled by several civilizations such as the Hittites, Arameans, Assyrians, Persians, Hellenistic, Romans, Byzantines, and Islamic caliphates. During the Abbasid era, Aleppo emerged as the capital of the Hamdanid dynasty.

Aleppo is one of the oldest continuously inhabited cities in the world, dating back to the 6th millennium BC. Excavations in Tell es-Sawda and Tell al-Ansari, located south of the old city, showed that the area was occupied at least in the last part of the 3rd millennium. The first mention of Aleppo appears in cuneiform tablets discovered in the Kingdom of Ebla and Mesopotamia, noting its military and commercial importance. Its strategic location made it a key trade hub between the Mediterranean Sea and Mesopotamia and at the end of the Silk Road.

For centuries, Aleppo was the largest city in Syria and the third-largest in the Ottoman Empire after Istanbul and Cairo. The importance of Aleppo started to decline slowly after the opening of the Suez Canal in 1869. In the early 20th century, Aleppo faced major setbacks: parts of its northern territories were annexed to Turkey in 1920, severing trade connections with historically linked cities like Gaziantep, Marash, Adana, and Mersin. The Sykes-Picot Agreement and the separation of Iraq from Syria caused significant economic decline.

In 1940, Aleppo lost access to the sea after losing its main Mediterranean outlet in Alexandretta. Aleppo's political significance also declined as Damascus became the capital of Syria. Despite these setbacks, Aleppo remained Syria's economic capital, hosting important industrial plants and serving as a center for agricultural production, particularly cotton for its thriving textile industry. Aleppo's old city was listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1986 and was named the Capital of Islamic Culture for the Arab world in 2006.

During the Syrian crisis, Aleppo suffered significant humanitarian and economic damage due to fighting, bombing, and the relocation of factories to Turkey. The city's economy halted, and many of its historical landmarks were destroyed, including the minaret of the Umayyad Mosque and most of its old markets.

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