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Al-Shahba Sports Club after winning the second division, Aleppo, 1968

Place: Aleppo · today Syria
Date: 1968

The Al-Shahba football team, a club of Aleppo's Syriac community, poses after beating Al-Shabiba 3–0 at the municipal stadium on 22 April 1968 to win the Second Division Championship, under the patronage of Bishop Mor Dionysius George Behnam.

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urhoy1924.com (Syriac community of Aleppo; many prints watermarked Qenshrin.com), via Wikimedia Commons

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Al-Shahba Sports Club after winning the second division, Aleppo, 1968

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