Arpad was a city located in north-western
Syria. Today the site is known as Tell Rif'at. In
743 BCE,
Assyrian king
Tiglath-pileser III led a military expedition to Syria, defeating there an army of
Urartu. But the city of Arpad, which had formed an alliance with Urartu, did not surrender easily. It took Tiglath-pileser three years of siege to conquer Arpad, whereupon he massacred its inhabitants and destroyed the city.
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