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Bab al-Nasr () meaning the ''Gate of Victory'', is one of the nine historical gates of the Ancient City of 
The structure was partially modified during Ottoman times and its role affected by mid-20th-century French urban planners.
The gate received "moderate" damage during the Syrian civil war and restored by local committee in 2018.
context and description
*Bab al-Nasr, Northern Gate of the Walled City
Record
of Greek Funerary Inscription drawing
Rebuilding Aleppo: Life beyond Syria's civil war
*Reopening even
photographs
*UNESC
Report
on damage to Bab al-Nasr (p. 110-113) *
Aleppo
Aleppo is a city in Syria, which serves as the capital of the Aleppo Governorate, the most populous Governorates of Syria, governorate of Syria. With an estimated population of 2,098,000 residents it is Syria's largest city by urban area, and ...
, Syria
Syria, officially the Syrian Arab Republic, is a country in West Asia located in the Eastern Mediterranean and the Levant. It borders the Mediterranean Sea to the west, Turkey to Syria–Turkey border, the north, Iraq to Iraq–Syria border, t ...
.
It was rebuilt and renamed by az-Zahir Ghazi
Al-Malik az-Zahir Ghiyath ud-din Ghazi ibn Yusuf ibn Ayyub (commonly known as az-Zahir Ghazi; 1172 – 8 October 1216) was the Kurdish Ayyubid emir of Aleppo between 1186 and 1216. He was the third son of Saladin and his lands included northern ...
in 1212 in became the most important northern gate of the city.
The structure was partially modified during Ottoman times and its role affected by mid-20th-century French urban planners.
The gate received "moderate" damage during the Syrian civil war and restored by local committee in 2018.
Further reading
* * Bab al-Nasr urban extra muracontext and description
*Bab al-Nasr, Northern Gate of the Walled City
Record
of Greek Funerary Inscription drawing
Rebuilding Aleppo: Life beyond Syria's civil war
*Reopening even
photographs
*UNESC
Report
on damage to Bab al-Nasr (p. 110-113) *
References
Ayyubid architecture in Syria Ziyarat Nasr 13th-century establishments in the Ayyubid Sultanate {{Syria-struct-stub