One of the regions under the occupation of Assyria. After the destruction of the Northern Kingdom of Israel, its inhabitants were forcibly relocated to various places within the Assyrian Empire, and this city was one of them.
1 Chronicles 5:26So the God of Israel stirred up the spirit of Pul king of Assyria, and the spirit of Assyria’s King Tiglath-Pileser, and he carried them away, namely, the Reubenites, the Gadites and the half-tribe of Manasseh, and brought them to Halah, Habor, Hara and the river of Gozan, where they are to this day.