Al-Nayrab
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Nayrab (also al - Nayrab, Arabic النيرب, DMG to - Nairab, Neirab; nērebu of Akkadian ) is a neighborhood of Aleppo in Syria, which lies about eight kilometers by road from the city center right next to the Aleppo airport.
History
The oldest Nayrabs localization is related to the country Aram naharaim (also Aram Nahrin ), is mentioned in the Old Testament and in three written Akkadian Amarna letters naharaim or Nahrima. There are various theories as to where this country was located. The Egyptologist Gaston Maspero (1846-1916) assumed the country in a region between the springing in Lebanon and what is now Turkey into the Mediterranean which opens the Orontes and the Balikh, a tributary of the Euphrates. After that belonged to this country next Khalabu (Aleppo ) also Nirabu ( Nirab ), corresponds to the situation of the present Nayrab.
The oldest, discovered during excavations in Nayrab archaeological piece is a sphinx of pharaoh Amenemhat III. (Reigned about 1842-1797 BC). This Sphinx considered as possible evidence of political and economic relations between Egypt and northern Syria during the Middle Kingdom.
In the so-called Mari texts on clay tablets from the archives of Akkadian king Zimri- Lim, who from 1773 to 1759 BC (mean chronology ) or 1709-1695 BC ( short chronology ) or 1677-1663 v. Chr ( ultra short chronology ) ruled the city-state of Mari, Nayrab is next to Ur, Haran, Tema ( Arabia) and Schawan ( Yemen ) named as an important place of worship for the moon god Sin. At Nayrab past led a caravan route.
In local lists of Pharaoh Thutmose III. (around 1486 BC - 1425 BC) and on a pillar of the temple of Soleb ( Nubia, 13th century BC), the place is nrb, read, listed as Nirib. It corresponds to the situation today Nayrab.
Even in a list of cities of the Aramaic Principality Bit Adini, the BC held the supremacy over Aram naharaim in the first half of the 9th century, Nayrab is listed as Nirabu.
In Nayrab two stelae with reliefs of deceased priests from the 7th century BC have been found in a hill. The inscriptions on it gained importance for the knowledge of the Aramaic languages. At this time was Nayrab Nērebu, was the province of the Aramaic Arpadda state bit Agusi ( Jaban ) and was a city of the Aramaic moon god Sahr.
Twenty-seven cuneiform tablets that were found in Nayrab, report from the shops of the descendants of a man named Nusku - Gabbe over about forty years of the reign Neriglissar ( 560 BC ) to the Darius I ( 522-520 BC. ). These people belonged to a family that was probably first moved from Neirab to Babylonia near Nippur and was able to return from there to decades after Neirab, where she brought the panels.
At the beginning of the 20th century, the French established a military airbase north of Nayrab, because the environment of Nayrab appeared suitable because of their soil. After the end of the occupation of the airport has been extended. It is officially called Aleppo airport and has a civilian and a military use area.
After the Palestine War in 1948 of thousands of Palestinians fled from the north of Palestine on the Syrian border and were then housed in military barracks near the airport, served in the following years as a refugee camp ( Muchayyam to - Nayrab ). The camp is one of the largest refugee camp in Syria. In December 2008 18.955 people were registered in the camp in an area of about 600 by 250 meters. The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East ( UNRWA) and the Syrian government to coordinate a utility program that in two phases, especially the major problems such as poor housing, poverty, unemployment, wide spread of leishmaniasis, drug addiction and low possibilities of own development to fight. In the first phase of this program were able to move into new housing units near the unofficial camp of Ein el - Tal in 2009, about 1,500 people (300 families).
The village Nayrab was incorporated into the urban expansion of Aleppo Aleppo.
Agriculture
In Nayrab different kinds of vegetables are grown, including cucumbers. A popular growing product are the Aljori Roses (Arabic: ورد جوري, was dschuri ), varieties of Damascus rose, which are exported on a large scale and used for the production of perfumes, medicines, food and syrup. In addition, cultured in Nayrab olives and pistachios.