Trade in the Levant during the Ottoman Empire until 1887: Aleppo - as a Model

Abstract

The importance of Aleppo’s location in Levant, springs from the role it plays in international trade, its openness to the world, especially after the industrial revolution in Europe, and the issuance of modern laws alongside economic reformations made by the Ottoman Empire in most fields. However, this flourishment ended with the weakness and disintegration of the state—a matter that was engendered by the intervention of European countries, and the beginning of colonial projects to divide the property of the sick man (the Ottoman Empire), especially in the Levant.