'Arabān

Araban, the ʿArabān of the medieval geographers, was a small town on the west bank of the Khabur south of al-Hasakah, on the road that ran from the Khabur towards the Tigris. Across the river rose the great mound of ʿAjāja, the Assyrian city of Shadikanni, whose governors had lined their palace with carved stone slabs. A bridge crossed the Khabur here, and early in the thirteenth century Yāqūt recorded ʿArabān as one of the small towns of the Khabur in the Jazira.