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ID: 7002383
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7002383

 

Record Type: administrative
Hierarchy of Petra (deserted settlement)  Petra (deserted settlement)

Coordinates:
Lat: 30 19 43 N  degrees minutes   Lat: 30.3280  decimal degrees
Long: 035 26 31 E  degrees minutes   Long: 35.4410  decimal degrees

Note: Located on a terrace pierced by Valley of Moses; valley is enclosed by colorful sandstone cliffs; was wealthy commercial city with important caravan trade; noted for rock-cut monuments, that is buildings cut from the living rock; was place from which Edomites were driven in 300 BCE by Nabataeans who held it as their capital until 106 CE; was chief city of Arabia Petraea; taken by Muslims in the 7th century; captured by Crusaders in the 12th century; rediscovered by Western world in 1812.

Names:
Petra (preferred,C,V)
Baṭrāʻ (C,V)
Πέτρα (C,V,Greek,U)
Al Batrāʻ (C,V)
البترا (C,V,Arabic,U)
Petrah (C,V)
Raqmu (C,V)  ............ Nabatean name
Selah (C,V)
Sela (C,V)
Gaia (C,V)
Reqem (C,V)
Vallis Moysi (C,V)

Hierarchical Position:
Hierarchy of World (facet)    World (facet)
Hierarchy of Asia (continent)  ....  Asia (continent) (P)
Hierarchy of Al Urdun (nation)  ........  Al Urdun (nation) (P)
Hierarchy of Ma‘ān (governorate)  ............  Ma‘ān (governorate) (P)
Hierarchy of Petra (deserted settlement)  ................  Petra (deserted settlement) (P)

Additional Parents:
Hierarchy of World (facet)    World (facet)
Hierarchy of Roman Empire (former nation/state/empire)  ....  Roman Empire (former nation/state/empire) (P,H)
Hierarchy of Arabia Petraea (province)  ........  Arabia Petraea (province) (P,H)
Hierarchy of Petra (deserted settlement)  ............  Petra (deserted settlement) (P,H)

Place Types:
deserted settlement (preferred, C)  ............  was important ancient site
archaeological site (C)  ............  excavations began in 1958
World Heritage Site (C)
rock-cut architecture (C)
inhabited place (H)
archiepiscopal see (H)  ............  300-600
capital (H)  ............  of Edom during ancient times; also of the Roman province of Arabia Petraea
Nabatean (H)

Related geographic places:
capital of ....  Arabia Petraea .......... (province)
..................  (World, Roman Republic and Empire) [6000352]
near/adjacent to ....  Khirbet ed-Dharih .......... (deserted settlement)
..............................  (World, Asia, Al Urdun, Aţ Ţafīlah) [7026138]

Sources and Contributors:
البترا..........  [VP]
.................  Milstein, 'Lost City' of Petra (2000-)
Πέτρα..........  [VP]
..............  Milstein, 'Lost City' of Petra (2000-)
Al Batrāʻ..........  [VP]
....................  NIMA, GEOnet Names Server (1996-1998)
Baṭrāʻ..........  [VP]
.................  NIMA, GEOnet Names Server (1996-1998)
Gaia..........  [VP]
...........  Pleiades (2006-) accessed 4 March 2020
Petra..........  [BHA, GRLPSC, VP Preferred]
..............  Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
..............  Comer, Petra (2012)
..............  Encyclopedia Britannica Online (1994-2002) accessed 10/08/99
..............  Hammond, Petra (1970)
..............  Milstein, 'Lost City' of Petra (2000-)
..............  Times Atlas of the World (1985)
..............  UNESCO World Heritage Centre [online] (1992-)
..............  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
Petrah..........  [GRLPSC, VP]
.................  GRI Photo Study, Authority File (1989)
Raqmu..........  [VP]
..............  Milstein, 'Lost City' of Petra (2000-)
Reqem..........  [VP]
..............  Pleiades (2006-) accessed 4 March 2020
Sela..........  [VP]
...........  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984) 947
Selah..........  [GRLPSC, VP]
..............  Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites (1979)
Vallis Moysi..........  [VP]
.......................  Pleiades (2006-) accessed 4 March 2020
Subject: .....  [BHA, GRLPSC, VP]
..................  Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
..................  Encyclopedia Britannica Online (1994-2002) accessed 8 October 1999; accessed 10/08/99
..................  GRI Photo Study, Authority File (1989)
..................  NIMA, GEOnet Names Server (1996-1998)
..................  Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites (1979)
..................  Times Atlas of the World (1985)
..................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984) 947
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]
..........  Comer, Petra (2012)
..........  Hammond, Petra (1970)
..........  Milstein, 'Lost City' of Petra (2000-)
..........  UNESCO World Heritage Centre [online] (1992-)

 

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