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In the Bible, Aram-Damascus is simply commonly referred to as Aram. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] After the final conquest by the rising Neo-Assyrian Empire in the second half of the 8th century and also during the later consecutive rules of the Neo-Babylonian Empire (612–539 BCE) and the Achaemenid Empire (539–332 BCE), the region of Aram lost most of its ...
; Syriac: ܐܪܡ-ܕܪܡܣܘܩ) was an Aramean polity that existed from the late-12th century BCE until 732 BCE, and was centred around the city of Damascus in the Southern Levant. [1] Alongside various tribal lands, it was bounded in its later years by the polities of Assyria to the north, Ammon to the south, and Israel to the west.
Articles relating to Aram-Damascus (c. 12th century BCE–732 BCE) and its rulers. It was an Aramean polity, centred around the city of Damascus in the Southern Levant. Alongside various tribal lands, it was bounded in its later years by the polities of Assyria to the north, Ammon to the south, and Israel to the west.
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The city is mentioned several times in the Hebrew Bible: . 2 Kings 18:34; 19:13; Isaiah 10:9; 36:19; 37:13; Jeremiah 49:23, within the oracle against Damascus, one of the poetic "oracles against foreign nations" found in the later chapters of the Book of Jeremiah.
The most notable was Aram-Damascus which reached its height in the second half of the 9th century BCE during the reign of King Hazael. During the 8th century BC, local Aramaean city-states were gradually conquered by the Neo-Assyrian Empire. The policy of population displacement and relocation that was applied throughout Assyrian domains also ...
Flight tracking data shows that a plane departed from Damascus airport at just before 2 a.m. local time on Sunday in the direction of the coast before making a sudden U-turn over the city of Homs ...
Map of Damascus in 1855 View of Damascus, 1898. 965 BCE – Ezron, King of Aram-Zobah conquers Damascus; 843 BCE – Hazael assassinated Ben-Hadad I and made himself king of Damascus. [1] 732 BCE – Neo-Assyrian Empire conquers Damascus; 572 BCE – Neo-Babylonians conquered Damascus; 538 BCE – Achaemenid Empire annexes Damascus