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Bab al-Nasr ( ar, بَاب النَّصْر, Bāb an-Naṣr) meaning the ''Gate of Victory'', is one of the nine historical gates of the
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Syria Syria ( ar, سُورِيَا or سُورِيَة, translit=Sūriyā), officially the Syrian Arab Republic ( ar, الجمهورية العربية السورية, al-Jumhūrīyah al-ʻArabīyah as-Sūrīyah), is a Western Asian country loc ...
. It was rebuilt and renamed by az-Zahir Ghazi 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 mura
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) *


References

Ayyubid architecture in Syria Ziyarat Nasr {{Syria-struct-stub