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Suri To Aram

"As soon as our Assyrian sources are again available, we find Aramean States there and a predominantly Aramaean population. The language of the land of Suri (cf. above, p. 10) then became Aramaic, and the terms “Syriacs” and “ Aramaeans,” originally completely distinct, became gradually synonymous."

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Syriac And Aramean Synonymity

"The Babylonians from the very first termed the land which runs northward of Mesopotamia to the mountains and westward to Cappadocia, Suri; the name survives even in classical times in that of the Leuco-Syriacs in Cappadocia (ef. above, p. 10). When Assyria and the southern part of Syria became Aramean, the name was then extended to the more southern countries, since Aramean and Syriac became to a certain extent synonymous."