Daily life around the outer walls of the citadel

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• Daily life around the outer walls of the citadel in the center of the old city of Aleppo, Syria,
•  on January 06, 2011. The Citadel of Aleppo is a large medieval fortified palace which is considered
•  to be one of the oldest and largest castles in the world. Usage of the citadel hill
•  dates back at least to the middle of the 3rd millennium B.C. Aleppo is also one of the
•  oldest continuously inhabited cities in the world; it has been inhabited since perhaps
•  as early as the 6th millennium B.C. The city was a strategic trading point midway between
•  the Mediterranean Sea and Mesopotamia. The city's significance in history has been its
•  location at the end of the Silk Road, which passed through central Asia and Mesopotamia