Arpad ( Old Aramaic : 𐡀𐡓𐡐𐡃 , romanized: ʾRPD ; Biblical Hebrew : אַרְפַּד , romanized: ʾArpaḏ or אַרְפָּד , ʾArpāḏ ; modern Tell Rifaat , Syria ) was an ancient Aramaean Syro-Hittite city located in north-western Syria, north of Aleppo . It became the capital of the Aramaean state of Bit Agusi established by Gusi of Yakhan in the 9th century BC. Bit Agusi stretched from the A'zaz area in the north to Hamath in the south.
6-632: [REDACTED] Look up Árpád in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Arpad or Árpád may refer to: People [ edit ] Árpád (given name) , a Hungarian men's name Árpád (c. 845–907), first ruler of Hungary Places [ edit ] Arpad, Syria , an ancient city in present-day Syria near Tell Rifaat Árpád, the Hungarian name for Arpăşel village, Batăr Commune, Bihor County, Romania Other [ edit ] Árpád Bridge ,
12-611: A bridge in Budapest, Hungary, named after the above person Árpád dynasty , the ruling dynasty in Hungary Arpad, the Gypsy , a Hungarian-French-German television film series SMS Árpád , the name of an Austro-Hungarian battleship Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Arpad . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change
18-577: A provincial capital. Tell Rifaat, which is probably the remains of Arpad, has walls still preserved to a height of eight meters. The city is mentioned several times in the Hebrew Bible : The Assyrian vizier , Rabshakeh , lists the god(s) of Arpad among those who he alleges have been unable to save their cities from Assyrian assault. The word Arpad in Hebrew means 'the light of redemption', or 'I shall be spread out (or: supported)' Tel Rifaat
24-586: Is an oval 250 by 233 meters. Within this, the main citadel is 142 by 142 meters with a maximum height of 30 meters. The defensive wall surrounding the site is about two miles long. The site has been worked by a team from the Institute of Archaeology or the University of London . After a preliminary examination in 1956, Tell Rifa'at was excavated for two seasons in 1961 and 1964. The team was led by Veronica Seton-Williams . In 1977, an archaeological survey
30-644: The Kingdom of Urartu . In 743 BC, during the Urartu-Assyria War , the Neo-Assyrian king Tiglath-Pileser III laid siege to Arpad following the defeat of the Urartuan army of Sarduri II at Samsat . But the city of Arpad did not surrender easily. It took Tiglath-Pileser three years of siege to conquer Arpad, whereupon he massacred its inhabitants and destroyed the city. Afterward Arpad served as
36-401: The link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Arpad&oldid=1014988014 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Arpad, Syria Arpad later became a major vassal city of
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