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• Aramaeans — The Aramaeans (also Arameans) (Aramaic/Syriac: ܐܪܡܝܐ , Ārāmāye ) were a Semitic (West Semitic language group), semi nomadic and pastoralist people who lived in upper Mesopotamia and Syria. Aramaeans never had a unified empire; they were divided… …   Wikipedia

• Aramaeans —    A group of tribal peoples who emerged in the middle of the second millennium b.c. from the Syrian deserts and established small kingdoms in Syria and along the Mediterranean coast, one of them centered in the town of Guzana. Some Aramaeans… …   Ancient Mesopotamia dictioary

• Aramaeans — According to Deut. 26:5 ‘a wandering Aramaean was my ancestor’; a reference to Jacob, and the Israelites sojourn in Egypt. It would seem that the claim was justified on the ground that Abraham migrated from Ur into Haran (Gen. 11:28–32), in an… …   Dictionary of the Bible

• History of the Levant — The Levant is a geographical term that refers to a large area in Southwest Asia, south of the Taurus Mountains, bounded by the Mediterranean Sea in the west, the Arabian Desert in the south, and Mesopotamia to the east. The term is also sometimes …   Wikipedia

• Ephrem the Syrian — Ephrem redirects here. For other persons with the name, see Ephrem (name). Saint Ephrem the Syrian Icon of Ephrem the Syrian from Meryem Ana Kilisesi, Diyarbakır Deacon, Confessor and Doctor of the Church; Venerable Father …   Wikipedia

• Military history of the Neo-Assyrian Empire — Assyrian Army Participant in Assyrian wars of conquest   …   Wikipedia

• Ethnic groups of the Middle East — [ 400px|thumb|The term Fertile Crescent (Egypt, the Levant, Mesopotamia) plus the Arabian peninsula.] The ethnic groups of the Middle East fall into several categories: *The Middle East proper is dominated by Arabs. There are various other ethnic …   Wikipedia

• Aramean-Syriac people — The Aramean Syriac people (Syriac: ar. , IPA all| Sūryōyɛ Orōmōyɛ) are an ethnic group who are widely spread into countries such as Syria, Turkey, Israel, Lebanon, Iran and Iraq and speak a variant of Aramaic. In later times, many of them fled… …   Wikipedia

• Books of Samuel — The Books of Samuel (Hebrew: Sefer Sh muel ספר שמואל) are part of the Tanakh (part of Judaism s Hebrew Bible) and also of the Christian Old Testament. The work was originally written in Hebrew, and the Book(s) of Samuel originally formed a single …   Wikipedia

• Bronze Age collapse — The fall of Troy, an event recounted in Greek mythology at the end of the Bronze Age, as represented by the 17th century painter Kerstiaen De Keuninck. Bronze Age …   Wikipedia

• Ancient Near East — The Ancient Near East refers to early civilizations within a region roughly corresponding to the modern Middle East: Mesopotamia (modern Iraq and Syria), Persis, Elam and Media (all three in Western Iran), Anatolia (modern Turkey), the Levant… …   Wikipedia