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Berya
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Berya is the Roman Beroea, the city now called Aleppo in Syria, and the Tabula marks it with the usual pair of towers. The place is far older than its Greek name. Egyptian monuments already attest it in the second millennium BC, and its native name was roughly Chalab. The Hellenistic king Seleucus Nicator enlarged the town and renamed it, yet the Greek geographer Strabo still called it a small town, and in Byzantine times the old name returned. Curiously, the map seems to show the city twice, for it turns up elsewhere as Bersera, with no drawing at all.