Beth Aramaye

Beth Aramaye (meaning "land of the Arameans"), known in Arabic sources as Balad al-Nabat, was a region and administrative site in the Sasanian province of Asoristan in present-day Iraq between the Hamrin Mountains and Meshan.

It is confirmed that the region was governed by marzbans (general of a frontier province, "margrave") under king Shapur II (r. 309-379), Yazdegerd I (r. 399-421), Peroz I (r. 459-484), in 485, 496, and before 525. A mobad is also confirmed to have been in this region during the reign of Khosrau I (r. 531-79), during the same time when Mar Aba I was Patriarch of the Church of the East (540-552). However, the region would later be removed as an administrative site due to the reforms of Khosrau I. In 636/7, Beth Aramaye was conquered by the Arabs.

Sources

Morony, Michael (1989). "BĒṮ ĀRAMAYĒ". Encyclopaedia Iranica, Vol. IV, Fasc. 2. p. 186.

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