Al-Bab
| Al-Bab الباب Bab Bzaʻa |
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| — Toun — | |
  Al-Bab
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| Coordinates: 36°22′21″N 37°31′4″E / 36.3725°N 37.51778°E | |
| Kintra |  Sirie |
| Govrenorate | Aleppo Govrenorate |
| Destrict | Al Bab Destrict |
| Nahiyah | Al-Bab |
| Hicht | 471 m (1,545 ft) |
| Indwallers (2004) | |
| - Tot | 63,069 |
| Time zone | EET (UTC+2) |
| - Simmer (DST) | +3 (UTC) |
Al-Bāb (Arabic: الباب) is a Sirian ceety admeenistratively belangin tae the Aleppo Govrenorate. Al Bab is locatit northeast o Aleppo an haes an aurie o 30 km². Al-Bab haes an altitude o 471 meters. It haes a population o 144,705 as o 2007, makkin it the 8t lairgest ceety per geographical entity in Sirie. The majority o the ceety's population are Sunni Muslims.
Name [edit]
Al-Bāb in Arabic means the door. Accordin tae Arab geographer Yaqut al-Hamawi in 1226, the name is a shortenin o Bāb Bizāʻah (the gate tae Bizāʻah). Bizāʻah (an aa Buzāʻah an Bzāʻā) is a toun locatit aboot 10 km east o Al-Bāb.
History [edit]
Al-Bāb wis conquered bi the Arab airmy o the Rashidun Caliphate unner caliph Umar ibn al-Khattab. It received its name, meanin "the Gate", durin Islamic rule as it served as "the gate" atween Aleppo an the adjacent toun o Buza'ah. The tomb an shrine o Aqil ibn Abi Talib (the brither o Ali) wis locatit in al-Bāb, an till its rule bi the Ayyubids in the 13t century, the toun wis populatit maistly bi Shias o the Ismaili sect.[1]
Accordin tae Yaqut al-Hamawi in 1226, it wis a sma toun in the destrict o Aleppo. In the toun wur mercats filled wi a type o cotton product cried kirbas which wur exportit tae Damascus an Egyp. Abu al-Fida writes that al-Bab wis a sma toun wi a mercat, a bath, pleasant gardens, an a mosque (the Great Mosque o al-Bab).[1]
