New Armenian Neighborhoods in Aleppo
In Aleppo, too, the Armenian refugee camps were gradually disappearing. Most lay in the northern part of the city, above all in the Suleimaniye, Hamidiye, and Ram districts, where some thirteen thousand people from Marash, Kilis, and Urfa were living in shanties in 1925. Another nine hundred or so Armenians from villages near Harput and Palu were living in the Gök Meydan Camp, while five hundred more, natives of Zeytun, had settled in the Esad Pasha Camp. As for the seventeen hundred Armenian refugees from Aintab, Gürün, and Harput living in Aleppo, they had found shelter in four small camps. Finally, Nestorian Assyrians from Urfa, all of whom were Armenian-speaking, had settled in camps located in the northwestern part of the city, near the Baghdad train station.87 Here too, where one lived depended on one’s place of origin. Between 1925 and 1930, by order of the Mandatory authorities, some of these camps were demolished. The refugees were concentrated in the remaining camps in the northern part of the city, that is, in Suleimaniye, Hamidiye, and Ram.
Outside the camps, seventeen hundred Armenian refugees were housed in various khans at the expense of Armenian organizations. In 1922, the AGBU had rented two buildings, one in the Bahsita section of the city and the ... Read all
The Building of Armenian Neighborhoods in Syria and Lebanon
Aerial view of the new Armenian neighborhoods in Meydan
el-Kebir, Aleppo (Coll. Bibl. Nubar/Paris).