Subsequent to this much of the region fell to the short-lived Neo-Babylonian Empire (612-539 BCE), and the whole region of modern Syria, Lebanon, the south central Turkish borders and northern Jordan eventually became a satrapy of the Achaemenid Empire (539-332 BCE), and was still known as Aramea and Eber-Nari throughout this period with the exception of the Assyrian-inhabited north-east of today's modern Syria and south-east of modern Turkey, which was a part of the satrapy of Athura (Achaemenid Assyria).[citation needed]