The second period of Armenian flow towards Aleppo was marked by the withdrawal of the French troops from Cilicia in 1923.[21] That wave brought more than 40,000 Armenian refugees to Aleppo between 1923 and 1925, and the population of the city skyrocketed up to 210,000 by the end of 1925, with Armenians forming more than 25% of the population.[22]