Located northeast of Latakia, this city with a large Christian population long dominated the silk trade with the French as well as the countryside north of Hama and Homs, which lie midway between Damascus and this city near the Turkish border.
This city's qadi sought the aid of the Abbasid Caliph when its ruler, Radwan ibn Tausch, proved unwilling to fight Tancred, but after Zengi united it with Mosul it achieved prominence in the campaign to recapture Jerusalem. Located northeast of Latakia, this city with a large Christian population long dominated the silk trade with the French as well as the countryside north of Hama and Homs, which lie midway between Damascus and this city near the Turkish border. FTP, identify this second most populous city in Syria.
This city's qadi sought the aid of the Abbasid Caliph when its ruler, Radwan ibn Tausch, proved unwilling to fight Tancred, but after Zengi united it with Mosul it achieved prominence in the campaign to recapture Jerusalem.
{Aleppo} (accept Halab)