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    Arabia Petraea or Petrea, also known as Rome's Arabian Province (Latin: Provincia Arabia; Arabic: العربية الصخرية; Ancient Greek: Ἐπαρχία Πετραίας Ἀραβίας)...
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  • province of Arabia Petraea (modern southern Jordan and northwest Saudi Arabia). The Hedjaz region was integrated into the Roman province of Arabia in 106 CE...
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    ruled large portions of north Arabia until their domain was annexed by the Roman Empire, which renamed it Arabia Petraea, and remained under the rule of...
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    Arabian peninsula: Arabia Deserta (or Arabia Magna), Arabia Felix, and Arabia Petraea. As a name for the region, it remained popular into the 19th and 20th...
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    From 106 CE to 630 CE, Arabia's most northwestern areas were controlled by the Roman Empire, which governed it as Arabia Petraea. A few nodal points were...
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    area was known as Arabia or Aravia (Greek: Αραβία). The Romans named three regions with the prefix "Arabia". Arabia Petraea ("Stony Arabia"): it consisted...
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    Zabdas to Bosra (capital of the province of Arabia Petraea); the queen's timing seems intentional. In Arabia the Roman governor (dux), Trassus (commanding...
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    Arabs (redirect from Arabian culture)
    capital Palmyra, led by Queen Zenobia, encompassed the Syria Palaestina, Arabia Petraea, and Egypt, as well as large parts of Anatolia. The Arab Itureans inhabited...
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    Sea. The province, a part of the Diocese of the East, was split from Arabia Petraea during the reforms of Diocletian in c.300 CE and existed until the Muslim...
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    Governorate in the north. In the classical era, the region was known as Arabia Petraea. The peninsula acquired the name Sinai in modern times due to the assumption...
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    the Romans divided the peninsula: Arabia Deserta, Arabia Felix, and Arabia Petraea. The southwestern corner of the peninsula experienced more rainfall...
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    Mecca (redirect from Mecca, Saudi Arabia)
    located in northwest Arabia, around the area of Leuke Kome, within the former Nabataean Kingdom and the Roman province of Arabia Petraea. Ptolemy lists the...
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    people who lived in and near what was designated by the Romans as Arabia Petraea and Arabia Deserta. The term's meaning evolved during its history of usage...
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    governor of Syria, the part of Arabia under the rule of Petra was absorbed into the Roman Empire as part of Arabia Petraea, and Petra became its capital...
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    Empire, which renamed it Arabia Petraea. The Nabataeans were one among several nomadic Bedouin Arab tribes that roamed the Arabian Desert and moved with...
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  • Petraea may refer to : Arabia Petraea, a frontier province of the Roman Empire Petraeus (disambiguation) This disambiguation page lists articles associated...
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    Trajan, the cities were incorporated into the provinces of Syria and Arabia Petraea; several cities were later placed in Syria Palaestina and Palaestina...
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    Roman Egypt (redirect from Arabia Nova)
    the provinces of Crete and Cyrenaica to the west and Judaea, later Arabia Petraea, to the East. Egypt was conquered by Roman forces in 30 BC and became...
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  • Saudi Arabia Arabia Petraea, a Roman province Arabia, Finland, a neighbourhood of Helsinki Arabia, Indiana, a community in the United States Arabia, Nebraska...
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    to the Tigris. He then enlarged and fortified the Limes Arabicus in Arabia Petraea. In 202, he campaigned in Africa and Mauretania against the Garamantes...
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    Nubians and Jews. In the first century AD, it was usually located in Arabia Petraea. There are still records of the legion in Syria at the beginning of...
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    Ulrich Jasper Seetzen (category Explorers of Arabia)
    Smith, Eli (1841). Biblical Researches in Palestine, Mount Sinai and Arabia Petraea: A Journal of Travels in the year 1838. Vol. 3. Boston: Crocker & Brewster...
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    249) was Roman emperor from 244 to 249. He was born in the province of Arabia Petraea, in a city situated in modern-day Syria. After the death of Gordian...
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    Hejaz (redirect from Hejaz, Saudi Arabia)
    Hejaz. The northern part of the Hejaz was part of the Roman province of Arabia Petraea. According to Arab and Islamic sources, the civilization of Mecca started...
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    city, Palmyra, it encompassed the Roman provinces of Syria Palaestina, Arabia Petraea, and Egypt, as well as large parts of Asia Minor. The Palmyrene Empire...
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    it became the prosperous provincial capital of the Roman province of Arabia Petraea following the dissolvement of the Nabatean kingdom. With the advent...
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  • its eponym, according to the Bible, and an ancient biblical town of Arabia Petraea. The term is also traditionally used in Biblical Hebrew as the synonym...
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    between Nile Delta (Egypt) and Mesopotamia, later known to Romans as Arabia Petraea. According to Herodotus, Cambyses did not subdue the Arabs when he attacked...
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    Illyrian Parthorum Parthi Cappadocia E Turkey Parthian Petreorum Nabataei Arabia Pet. cPetra, Jordan Arabic Phrygum Phryges Galatia Eskisehir, W Turkey Phrygian...
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    Syria, but formerly in the Roman province of Arabia Petraea. Known in Late Antiquity as Philippopolis (in Arabia), the city was the seat of a Bishopric (see...
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