Aleppo Occupied

Over the course of the civil war, cultural sites have been misused as strategic bases - among them the Citadel of Aleppo, a fortress on a hill towering above the old city. The Seleucid Empire, a dynasty that followed Alexander the Great, erected the fortress in the 4th century B.C. Greeks, Romans, Persians, Byzantines and Ottomans have also built temples on the hill.