![]() ![]() A distinctive Aramaic alphabet was developed and used to write the Old Aramaic language. The people of "Aram" were called "Arameans" in Assyrian text and in the Old Testament, but “Aramean” was never a self-designation "Arameans" is merely an appellation of the geographical term Aram given to 1st-millennium B.C. The Arameans were never a single nation or group rather, Aram was a region with local centers of power spread throughout the Levant, making it almost impossible to establish a coherent ethnic category of “Aramean” based on extra-linguistic identity markers, such as material culture, lifestyle or religion. The most notable was Aram-Damascus, which reached its height in the second half of the 9th century BCE during the reign of king Hazael. At the beginning of the 1st millennium BCE, a number of Aramean-ruling states were established throughout the western regions of the ancient Near East. ![]() The Aramean homeland, sometimes known as the land of Aram, encompassed central regions of modern Syria. ![]() The Arameans, or Aramaeans, ( Old Aramaic: □□□□□ Ancient Greek: Ἀραμαῖοι Classical Syriac: ܐܪ̈ܡܝܐ, romanized: Ārāmāyē) were an ancient Semitic-speaking people in the Near East, first recorded in historical sources from the late 12th century BCE. ![]()
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