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ArameansHermes: Zeitschrift für klassische Philologie
"The main body of the population of all these wide landscapes from the Mediterranean Sea to beyond the Tigris belonged to a certain nationality, that of the Arameans."
"It is well understandable that people have started to transfer the name of the country to the most important nationality and so the name Syriac was apprehended ethnological and was equated with Aramean."
"Since the times of Alexander [the Great], if not already somewhat earlier, people have started to transfer the name of the Syriacs exclusively over the prevailing in Syria nationality, and in this way this originally political-geographical term became an ethnological one that was identified with the local Arameans."
"It is well understandable that people have started to transfer the name of the country to the most important nationality and so the name Syriac was apprehended ethnological and was equated with Aramean."
"Since the times of Alexander [the Great], if not already somewhat earlier, people have started to transfer the name of the Syriacs exclusively over the prevailing in Syria nationality, and in this way this originally political-geographical term became an ethnological one that was identified with the local Arameans."