Bit-Halupe

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Bit-Ḫalupe, an ancient Aramean state in eastern Syria, located within the triangular area formed by the confluence of the Khabur River with the Euphrates River. It was one of the four Aramean states that bordered Assyria. The others were Bit-Zamani, Bit Bahiani and Laqe. By the ninth century BC all of them were assimilated by Assyria.{{cite book|author=Trevor Bryce|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=E1aF0hq1GR8C&q=Ashurnasirpal+II+on+Suru+of+Bit-Halupe&pg=PA674|title=The Routledge Handbook of the Peoples and Places of Ancient Western Asia: The Near East from the Early Bronze Age to the Fall of the Persian Empire|publisher=Routledge|year=2009|page=129|isbn=9781134159086}}

In Bit-Ḫalupe was the city of Suru (Al-Suwar).{{cite book|author=Emil G. H. Kraeling|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=pPxLAwAAQBAJ&q=Suru%2C+the+capital+of+Bit-Halupe&pg=PA54|title=Aram and Israel: The Aramaeans in Syria and Mesopotamia|publisher=Wipf and Stock Publishers|year=2008|page=54|isbn=9781606083949}} Suru was also among the cities that in 883 BC took part in the unsuccessful rebellion against the Assyrian king Ashurnasirpal II.