Arabia Petraia
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: D.F. Graf
Creators: D.F. Graf
Contributors:
R. Talbert, Sean Gillies, Michael Heubel, Ryan Horne, Jeffrey Becker, Richard Talbert, Tom Elliott
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History
A province on the frontier of the Roman empire from the second century AD, Arabia Petraia comprised parts of the former kingdom of Nabataea, as well as southern Syria, the Sinai, and the northwestern part of the Arabian peninsula. Its capital was Petra.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/746711
29.8302636145, 35.0638174991
- Representative Locations:
- BAtlas Map Label Location (30 BC - AD 300) accuracy: +/- 930 meters.
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- Arabia Petraia (30 BC - AD 300)
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- Petra part of (regional) Arabia Petraia (30 BC - AD 300)
province, diocese, nome (deprecated), map label location
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 76 F2 Arabia Petraia
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D.F. Graf, R. Talbert, Sean Gillies, Michael Heubel, Ryan Horne, Jeffrey Becker, Richard Talbert, and Tom Elliott, 'Arabia Petraia: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2022 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/746711> [accessed: 29 April 2025]
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