ARAMEANS, the former inhabitants of Aram, a country or north Semitic kingdom extending from the western borders of Babylonia to the highlands of western Asia. Their central city was Zenjirli to the north of Aleppo and here many inscriptions have been found. In the Septuagint and Vulgate the name of this territory appears as Syria and the Arameans were in race, lan guage and religion a part of the north Semitic family.