Yani Asur Dönemi Yazılı Kaynaklarında Bit-Bahiyani Arami Krallığı

At the beginning of the First Millennium BC, Aramaic tribes which came to Mesopotamia were structured as a small states or kingdoms in the regions around Northern Syria and Southeastern Anatolia. Kingdom of Aramaic Bit-Bahiani was one of those states. Guzana was the capital city of this kingdom. Kingdom of Bit-Bahiani had an important location on its strategic position in the Anatolian-Syria borders. Because of geographical proximity to Anatolia-Syria and Mesopotamia, this kingdom had relationships with major political states in Anatolia-Syria and Mesopotamia. As a result of these relationships, the name of Bit-Bahiani was recorded in the Neo-Assyrian sources.