Tiglath-Pileser overruns Kummukh (Commagene) and eastern Cappadocia in the fifth year of his reign, attacking Comana in Cappadocia and …

…driving the Hittites from the Assyrian province of Subarti northeast of Malatia, advancing as far as Milid.

He places a record of his victories engraved on copper plates in a fortress he builds to secure his Cilician conquests.

Many great changes had begun to occur in the Egyptian Empire during the reign of Ramesses III because of the invasion of Syria by peoples from Asia Minor and Europe.

His successors lose their hold over Canaan; the Twenty-first Dynasty no longer intervenes in the affairs of Syria.

In The Story of Wen-Amon, a tale of an Egyptian religious functionary sent to Byblos to secure cedar around 1100, the episode of the functionary's inhospitable reception shows the extent of the decline of Egypt's authority in Phoenicia at this time.

Tiglath-Pileser secures command of the high road to the Mediterranean by the possession of the Hittite town of Pethor at the Jordan River; thence he proceeds to …

…the Phoenician cities of Gubal (Byblos), …

…Sidon, and finally to …

…Arvad, where he embarks onto a ship to sail the Mediterranean, on which he kills a nahiru or "sea-horse" (which A. Leo Oppenheim translates as a narwhal) in the sea.

The Phoenician trading cities pay him tribute, and Egypt, closely linked by trade with the Syrian coast, makes overtures of friendship.

Tiglath-Pileser conquers northern Babylonia after 1100 BCE.

The city of Damascus becomes the center of a powerful Aramaean state called Aram Damascus in the late twelfth century BCE.

The sources for the early history of Aram-Damascus are almost nonexistent.

A collection of annals dating to Tiglath-Pileser I (1114-1076 BCE) states that Aramaean people have begun settling in the southern half of Syria.

The ruins of the Aramean town most probably lie under the eastern part of the old walled city.

Tiglath-Pileser is passionately fond of the chase.

He is also a great builder: the general view is that the restoration of the temple of Assur and Hadad at Assur is one of his works.

He carries out extensive building work in Ashur, …