Arpad > Tell Rifa'at Kilis Turkey

…Bit Agusi (with the cities of Arpad, Nampigi, and (later on) Aleppo); …

Tiglath Pileser, after taking Arpad in 740 BCE and defeating a northern Syrian coalition two years later, compels all Syrian princes and the small states of eastern Anatolia to pay tribute.

Annexing vassal states, he makes them into Assyrian provinces.