The earliest cities in history were in the ancient Near East, an area covering roughly that of the modern Middle East: its history began in the 4th millennium BC and ended, depending on the interpretation of the term, either with the conquest by the Achaemenid Empire in the 6th century BC or with that by Alexander the Great in the 4th century BC.. The largest cities of the Bronze …

The Orontes (/ ɔː ˈ r ɒ n t iː z /; from Ancient Greek Ὀρόντης, Oróntēs) or Asi (Arabic: العاصي, al-‘Āṣī, IPA: [alʕaːsˤiː]; Turkish: Asi) is a 571 kilometres (355 mi) long river in Western Asia that begins in Lebanon, flowing northwards through Syria before entering the Mediterranean Sea near Samandağ in Turkey.. As the chief river of the northern Levant, the ...

Aleppo (arabisch حلب, DMG Ḥalab; französisch Alep; kurdisch (Kurmandschi) Heleb; türkisch Halep; armenisch Հալէպ; aramäisch ܚܠܒ Halab; in der Antike zeitweise Beroia) ist eine Stadt im Norden Syriens.Aleppo ist gleichzeitig Hauptstadt des gleichnamigen Gouvernements Aleppo.Im Jahr 2006 erhielt Aleppo nach Mekka als erster Ort die Bezeichnung Hauptstadt der Islamischen …