Arameans

It was destroyed soon afterwords, possibly by the Arameans in the late 9th-century.

Aramaic refers to the language of the Arameans.

However, this dynasty too fell, when the Arameans once more ravaged Babylon.

The most likely author of this monument is Hazael of the Arameans.

Some scholars argue that therefore the Greeks must have borrowed their alphabet from the Arameans.

Today, some Syriac Christians claim to be the descendants of the Arameans.

The Arameans arrived in Syria.

The Arameans were, in the 11th century BC, established in Syria.

During the Israelite period, under the reign of David, it was fortified, and later conquered by the Arameans.

"This (Efrem) who became a crown of glory for all the Arameans, and through him they became near the spiritual splendors.

Shamshi-ilu also scored victories over the Arameans and neo Hittites, and again, takes personal credit at the expense of his king.

Ashurnasirpal I (1049-1031 BC) succeeded him, and during his reign he continued to campaign endlessly against the Arameans to the west.

In the 12th century BC a new influx of Semites from the west took place, with the arrival of the Arameans.

The Western Aramaic dialect of the Arameans themselves is now only spoken by tiny minorities in one or two villages in Syria.

The Arameans never had a unified nation; they were divided into small independent kingdoms across parts of the Near East, particularly in what is now modern Syria.

He joined his uncle Jehoram, king of Israel, in an unsuccessful expedition against Hazael, king of the Arameans.

Ashur-bel-kala (1073-1056 BC) appears to have initially kept the vast empire together, campaigning successfully against Urartu to the north and the Arameans to the west.

The Assyrian king attacked the Arameans, forced his way to the far off Mediterranean and constructed a stele in the area of Mount Atalur.

They appear to have been displaced or absorbed by a new wave of semi nomadic Semites, the Arameans, from circa 1200 BC onwards.

The inscription goes on to describe the travails inflicted by the Arameans and Sutû, harking back to the reign of Adad-apla-iddina:

Arne was first inhabited by the Arameans, and served as the first royal capital of the Aramaean kingdom of Bet-Gus.

From the Arameans, who first settled in the area now known as Syria, came the Aramaic language, in which some passages of the Old Testament are written.

Farther north, the Arameans were in possession of Hamath on the Orontes and were soon to become strong enough to dissociate with the Neo-Hittite bloc.

Those indigenous Arameans who converted to Islam rapidly lost their Aramean identity, intermixed with the Arab rulers and essentially became culturally Arabs.

In 733, Tiglath-Pileser campaigned against Damascus, the capital of the Arameans, Pekah's erstwhile ally, and he returned to destroy the city in 732.