The Sabaeans and Sabaeanism

"We have already expressed the assumption that originally, northern Mesopotamia in the narrower sense, as the relatively original land of the Arameans, was called 'Aram' and that this name was only later transferred to some other parts of Mesopotamia and Syria. Here, the Arameans are connected as a native people of northern Mesopotamia, and the name of their land, Aram, was also used to refer to Syria and parts of Mesopotamia, such as Aram-Naharaim (Aram Nahrin)."

Aram is stated to be synonymous with Syria, as well as Mesopotamia, which is the original land of the Arameans.