The town Arpad

 

There was a town state called Arpad in the Near-East in the 1. millennium B.C. Maybe somewhere in todays Syria or Jordania, I don't know.

Has somebody any information (population, language etc.) about it?

 

Thanks:

 

            TSZ

 

Arpad, located in northwestern Syria (northwest of Aleppo) was actually a very old town.  In the 3rd millennium BC, it was the center of a king according the Ebla archives.  In the 1st millennium BC it was the center of an Aramaic state, which included Aleppo, and which extended to the Euphrates, called Bit-Agusi by the Assyrians, and as Yakhan or Bayt Gusi by the Aramaeans, hence this extended kingdom comprised the greater part of northernmost Syria, bordered on the south by the Kingdom of Hamath.  It became an Assyrian tributary state in 858 BC, but afterwards was in vain brief revolts in the reigns of three Assyrian kings.  Tiglathpileser III finally brought it under control when he defeated the Urarteans there, abolished its kingship, and converted it into a province, 740 BC. 

 

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