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The compound name "Aram-Damascus" in only found in the Hebrew Bible, where it sometimes also is referred to as simply "Aram" or "Damascus". It is also referred to as "Aram" in some Aramaic inscriptions. In Assyrian sources, "Aram" was never used to designate it. It was often referred to as "Damascus" or "imērīšu" (meaning "his donkey"), and ...
The area did not develop into a larger empire but consisted of several small states in present-day Syria. Some of the states are mentioned in the Hebrew Bible, Aram-Damascus being the most outstanding one, which came to encompass most of Syria. In the Bible, Aram-Damascus is simply commonly referred to as Aram. [1] [2]
Luwian and Aramean states (c. 800 BCE). The states called Neo-Hittite, Syro-Hittite (in older literature), or Luwian-Aramean (in modern scholarly works) were Luwian and Aramean regional polities of the Iron Age, situated in southeastern parts of modern Turkey and northwestern parts of modern Syria, known in ancient times as lands of Hatti and Aram.
“Basically, we left the prison, then we wandered around Damascus looking for a place to stay that night,” he said. “And the first night I stayed in Bab Touma and in an abandoned apartment.
US man found wandering near Damascus after months in Syrian prison George Wright - BBC News and Lyse Doucet - Chief international correspondent, in Damascus December 12, 2024 at 9:29 PM
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Adra Prison (Arabic: سجن عدرا) was a prison in Syria, on the northeast outskirts of Damascus. [1] [2] Political prisoners are held in the prison, along with a mixture of civil prisoners such as traffic offenders, murderers, and drug dealers. In 2014, the prison held more than 7,000 inmates, a dozen of them women, in space designed for 2,500.
28-year-old Irvin Ariel Portillo, of Damascus (Photo Courtesy: MCPD) On Nov. 8, police served Portillo an arrest warrant on charges including second-degree rape and third-degree sexual offenses.