Challenge: can you point to Aleppo on the map?
Okay, so can I? Summon forth a Map. Find Syria: it's right where I look first, alongside the Kurdish parts of Turkey and Iraq. So far, so good.
Now look along the coast. No Aleppo. Hm?
Oh.
It's way the smeg inland. Got a puny little creek running through it. What would a sailor be doing there? There appear to be some Syrial ports, but Aleppo sure don't look to be one of 'em.
The meta-lesson here: don't learn geography from fictional witches.
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