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CONCERTS · 2007

A photograph from Aleppo

A dated image places Harout in the city in January 2007.

A Wikimedia Commons photograph titled “Harout Pamboukjian in Aleppo, 2007” provides a visual record from the Syrian city. Its creator, Kevorkmail, dates the photograph January 7, 2007. The biographical caption associated with the image describes an Armenian Christmas concert.

The photograph is useful precisely because it is a different kind of historical evidence: a credited image rather than a later recollection or an undated concert clip. Its file history also separates the photograph’s date from the much later date when it was transferred to Commons.

The available caption does not identify a venue or provide a programme. The archive therefore records the city and year without inventing a hall, concert time or song list. Readers can inspect the original file information and its licensing terms through the source link.

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