King Kapara (also Gabara) was an Aramean king of

Bit Bahiani Bit Baḫiani was an independent Aramean city-state kingdom (c. 1200 – 808 BC) with its capital at ''Guzana'' (modern day Tell Halaf). Bit Baḫiani was ruled by King Kapara. There were at least five kings and four governors of Bit Baḫiani b ...

, one of the Post-Hittite states, centered in Guzana (modern Tell Halaf, in northeastern

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). He ruled sometime in the 10th or 9th century BCE, according to some estimations ca. 950-875 BCE. . F. Albright, ''The Date of the Kapara Period at Gozan (Tell Halaf)'', Anatolian Studies, (1956)./ref> He built Bit-hilani, a monumental palace in Post-Hittite style, discovered by Max von Oppenheim in 1911, with a rich decoration of statues and relief orthostats. In 894 BC, the

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recorded the site in his archives as a tributary Aramaean city-state. In 808 BC the city and its surrounding area was reduced to a province of the

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. File:Max von Oppenheim. Tell Halaf. 1912.jpg, Excavations in Tell Halaf, 1912 File:Max von Oppenheim. Tell Halaf. 1913.jpg, Excavations in Tell Halaf, 1913 File:Aleppo Tell Halaf replica in National Museum 0092.jpg, A replica of the entrance to the palace of king Kapara at the

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File:Gerettetegötter sitzendespaar2.JPG, A stele depicting of Hadad and

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File:Gerettetegötter göttin1.JPG, An Aramean goddess File:Statue TellHalaf 01.jpg, An Aramean god File:Gerettetegötter löwen.JPG, A stele depicting two guardian lions

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