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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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    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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    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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    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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    was called Arabia or Aravia (Greek: Αραβία) by Greco-Roman authors. There were multiple areas called "Arabia" : Arabia Petraea ("Stony Arabia"): it consisted...
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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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    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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    Arabs (redirect from Arabians)
    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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  • 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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    as his successor. Born in modern-day Shahba, Syria, in what was then Arabia Petraea, Philip's ethnicity was not attested with certainty, but he was most...
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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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  • 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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  • Smith, E. (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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    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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    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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  • Castra (Latin, singular castrum) were military forts of various sizes used by the Roman army throughout the Empire in Europe, Asia and Africa. The largest...
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    known; Josephus specifies that it was "between Egypt and Arabia", and within Arabia Petraea (a Roman Province encompassing modern Jordan, southern modern...
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  • Smith, E. (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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    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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