738, we find the Phoenician cities of Zimirra, or Simyra, and Arqa, or Arka.
Zimirra was in the plain between the sea and Mount Bargylus, not very far from the island of Aradus, whereof it was a dependency.

Arqa was further to the south, beyond the Eleutherus, and belonged properly to Tripolis, if Tripolis had as yet been founded, or else to Botrys.

Both of them were readily accessible from the Orontes valley along the course of the Eleutherus, and, being weak, could offer no resistance.
Tiglath-pileser carried out his plans, rearranged the populations, and placed the cities under Assyrian governors responsible to himself.

There was no immediate outbreak; but the injury rankled.

Within twenty years Zimirra joined a revolt, to which Hamath, Arpad, Damascus, and Samaria were likewise parties, and made a desperate attempt to shake off the Assyrian yoke.[14135] The attempt failed, the revolt was crushed, and Zimirra is heard of no more in history.
But this was not the worst.