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Beth Aramaye Being the Country of Syriacs

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"The neighborhood of Ctesiphon was called in the time of the Sasanids Sûristân, a translation of the Aramean designation Bêth-Arâmâyê, “country of the Syriacs,” for the land was mainly occupied by Arameans. By a notable substitution the Arabs afterwards gave the name Nabat, i.e Nabataeans, to these Aramean peasantry, who, it may be added, were already found in these parts at the time of the Babylonian empire."

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Date: 1875
Language: English
Publisher: The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General Literature, p. 56.
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