Arabia Petraia
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: D.F. Graf Copyright © The Creators. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Creators: D.F. Graf Copyright © The Creators. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Last modified
Feb 15, 2013 09:22 AM
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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
30.328611, 35.441944
- Representative Locations:
- Undetermined location (30 BC - AD 300)
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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
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 76 F2 Arabia Petraia
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D.F. Graf, R. Talbert, Sean Gillies, Tom Elliott, and Jeffrey Becker, 'Arabia Petraia: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2013 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/746711> [accessed: 27 May 2022]
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