Group
Aramaeans
The Aramaeans, also Arameans, are a Northwest Semitic semi-nomadic and pastoralist people who originated in what is now modern Syria (Biblical Aram) during the Late Bronze Age and the Iron Age.
Large groups migrated to Mesopotamia where they intermingled with the native Akkadian (Assyrian and Babylonian) population.The Aramaeans never had a unified empire; they were divided into independent kingdoms all across the Near East.
After the Bronze Age collapse, their political influence was confined to a number of Syro-Hittite states, which were entirely absorbed into the Neo-Assyrian Empire by the 8th century BCE.By contrast, their Aramaic language came to be the lingua franca of the entire Fertile Crescent, by Late Antiquity developing into the literary languages such as Syriac and Mandaic.
Scholars even have used the term "Aramaization" for the process by which Assyro-Babylonian peoples became Aramaic-speaking during the later Iron Age.
Today, members of the Syriac Orthodox Church claim to be descendants of the Aramaeans.
Member Cities
- Abila > Raphana Jordan Location
- Ain Dara temple Halab Syria Location
- Al-Muharraq Bahrain Location
- Aleppo > Halab Halab Syria Location
- Amida > Diyarbakir Diyarbakir Turkey Location
- Antioch > Antakya Hatay Turkey Location
- Arpad > Tell Rifa'at Kilis Turkey Location
- Assur > Ashur Iraq Location
- Babylon Babil Iraq Location
- Bet She'an > Scythopolis Israel Israel Location
- Bor > Tyana Nigde Turkey Location
- Byblos > Jubayl Mont-Liban Lebanon Location
- Ctesiphon Iraq Location
- Damascus > Dimashq Dimashq Syria Location
- Dan Israel Israel Location
- Dium (Dion); Tell al-Achari? Dara`â Syria Location
- Gerasa > Jerash Jarash Jordan Location
- Hama > Epiphania Hamah Syria Location
- Hippos Israel Israel Location
- Janin > Jenin West Bank Israel Location
- Jerusalem > Yerushalayim Israel Israel Location
- Karatepe Osmaniye Turkey Location
- Latakia > Al-Ladhiqiyah Al-Ladhiqiyah Syria Location
- Megiddo Israel Israel Location
- Melid Malatya Turkey Location
- Mosul > Al-Mawsil Ninawa Iraq Location
- Mount Hermon Syria Location
- Nimrud Ninawa Iraq Location
- Palmyra > Tudmur Hims Syria Location
- Pella Jordan Location
- Philadelphia > 'Amman `Amman Jordan Location
- Qanawat > Canatha As-Suwayda' Syria Location
- Qarqar (Karkar) Idlib Syria Location
- Ramoth-Gilead Jarash Jordan Location
- Sam'al Gaziantep Turkey Location
- Samosata > Samsat Adiyaman Turkey Location
- Shechem > Nabulus Israel Israel Location
- Susa Iran Location
- Tell Halaf Al-Hasakah Syria Location
- Tell Tayinat Hatay Turkey Location
- Thebes Egypt Location
- Tiberias > Teverya Israel Israel Location
- Til Barsip Halab Syria Location
- Zahlah > Gadara Béqaa Lebanon Location