Editing Aleppo (section)

===Historical population===
{{Historical populations
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|footnote=Source<ref name="Population facts"/><ref>{{cite web |url=https://edition.cnn.com/2012/07/29/world/meast/syria-aleppo-civilians/ |title=200,000 civilians try to escape violence in Syrian city of Aleppo |date=29 July 2012 |access-date=2 August 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160818023503/http://edition.cnn.com/2012/07/29/world/meast/syria-aleppo-civilians/ |archive-date=18 August 2016 |url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="wrldrew"/>
|1883 |99179
|1901 |108143
|1922 |156748
|1925 |210000
|1934 |249921
|1944 |325000
|1950 |362500
|1960 |425467
|1965 |500000
|1983 |639000
|1990 |1216000
|1995 |1500000
|2000 |1937858
|2004 |2132100
|2005 |2301570
|2016 |1800000
|2021 |2098210
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[[File:Alepp0fashion.jpg|thumb|left|upright|Two [[Bedouins]] and a [[Jewish]] woman in Aleppo, 1873]]

According to the Aleppine historian Sheikh ''Kamel Al-Ghazzi'' (1853–1933), the population of Aleppo was around 400,000 before the disastrous [[1822 Aleppo earthquake|earthquake of 1822]]. Followed by cholera and plague attacks in 1823 and 1827 respectively, the population of the city declined to 110,000 by the end of the 19th century.<ref>Saint Terezia Church Aleppo [http://www.terezia.org/section.php?id=1823 Christians in Aleppo at the end of the Ottoman Empire] {{Webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171009230825/http://www.terezia.org/section.php?id=1823 |date=9 October 2017 }}</ref> In 1901, the total population of Aleppo was 108,143 of which Muslims were 76,329 (70.58%), Christians — mostly Catholics — 24,508 (22.66%) and Jews 7,306 (6.76%).<ref>Alepppo in One Hundred Years 1850– 1950, vol.2-page 3, 1994 Aleppo. Authors: Mohammad Fuad Ayntabi and Najwa Othman</ref>

Aleppo's large Christian population swelled with the influx of [[Armenians in Syria|Armenian]] and [[Syrian-Assyrians|Assyrian]] Christian refugees during the early 20th-century and after the [[Armenian genocide|Armenian]] and [[Assyrian Genocide|Assyrian genocides]] of 1915. After the arrival of the first groups of [[Armenians in Syria|Armenian]] refugees (1915–1922) the population of Aleppo in 1922 counted 156,748 of which Muslims were 97,600 (62.26%), native Christians — mostly Catholics —  22,117 (14.11%), Jews 6,580 (4.20%), Europeans 2,652 (1.70%), Armenian refugees 20,007 (12.76%) and others 7,792 (4.97%).<ref>Alepppo in One Hundred Years 1850–1950, vol.3-page 26, 1994 Aleppo. Authors: Mohammad Fuad Ayntabi and Najwa Othman</ref><ref>The Golden River in the History of Aleppo, ({{langx|ar|ﻧﻬﺮ ﺍﻟﺬﻫﺐ ﻓﻲ ﺗﺎﺭﻳﺦ ﺣﻠﺐ}}), vol.1 (1922) page 256, published in 1991, Aleppo. Author: Sheikh ''Kamel Al-Ghazzi''</ref> However, even though a large majority of the Armenians arrived during the period, the city has had an Armenian community since at least the 1100s, when a considerable number of Armenian families and merchants from the [[Armenian Kingdom of Cilicia]] settled in the city. The [[Forty Martyrs Cathedral|oldest Armenian church in the city]] is from 1491 as well, which indicates that they have been there long before.

The second period of Armenian flow towards Aleppo marked with the withdrawal of the French troops from [[Cilicia]] in 1923.<ref>The Golden River in the History of Aleppo ({{langx|ar|ﻧﻬﺮ ﺍﻟﺬﻫﺐ ﻓﻲ ﺗﺎﺭﻳﺦ ﺣﻠﺐ}}), vol.3 (1925) pages 449–450, published in 1991, Aleppo. Author: Sheikh ''Kamel Al-Ghazzi''</ref> After the arrival of more than 40,000 Armenian refugees between 1923 and 1925, the population of the city reached up to 210,000 by the end of 1925, of which more than a quarter were Armenians.<ref>{{cite book |last=Hovannisian |first=Richard G. |author-link=Richard G. Hovannisian |title=The Armenian People From Ancient to Modern Times, Volume II: Foreign Dominion to Statehood: The Fifteenth Century to the Twentieth Century |publisher=Palgrave Macmillan |location=New York |year=2004 |isbn=978-1-4039-6422-9 |page=425 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=s2ByErk19DAC |access-date=25 July 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131009060842/http://books.google.com/books?id=s2ByErk19DAC |archive-date=9 October 2013 |url-status=live}}</ref>

According to the historical data presented by ''Al-Ghazzi'', the vast majority of the Aleppine Christians were Catholics until the latter days of the Ottoman rule. The growth of the [[Oriental Orthodox]] Christians is related with the arrival of the Assyrian survivors from Cilicia and Southern Turkey, while on the other hand, large numbers of [[Eastern Orthodox Church of Antioch|Eastern Orthodox Christians]] from the [[Hatay Province|Sanjak of Alexandretta]] arrived in Aleppo, after the annexation of the Sanjak in 1939 in favour of Turkey.
[[File:Umayyad Mosque, Aleppo, Syria (5077865830).jpg|thumb|Syrian children in Aleppo]]

In 1944, Aleppo's population was around 325,000, with 112,110 (34.5%) Christians among which Armenians numbered 60,200. Armenians formed more than half of the Christian community in Aleppo until 1947, when many groups of them left for [[Soviet Armenia]] within the frames of the ''Armenian Repatriation Process (1946–1967)''.