Aleppo Timeline

• 5000 BCE
  First settlement in Aleppo.
• c. 1600 BCE
  Amorite dynasty of Aleppo is overthrown.
• c. 1600 BCE - c. 800 BCE
  Aleppo is under Hittite control.
• c. 850 BCE
  First mention of Melquart on a Phoenician stela found in Aleppo, erected by the son of the king of Arma "for his lord Melqart, which he vowed to him and he heard his voice".
• 333 BCE
  Alexander the Great conquers Aleppo.
• 64 BCE - 637 CE
  Aleppo is under Roman and Byzantime control.
• 637 CE
  Aleppo is conquered by Khalid ibn al-Walid.
• 970 CE
  The Treaty of Safar makes Aleppo a client state of the Byzantine Empire.
• Dec 1259 CE
  The Mongols besiege and capture Aleppo in Syria.