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ID: 6000352
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/6000352
Record Type:
administrative
Arabia Petraea (province)
Note:
Literally "Stony Arabia" in Latin. It became a Roman province in 106 CE. Its capital first at Petra and later at Busra ash-Sham in Syria. It is located in modern-day Jordan.
Names:
Arabia Petraea
(
preferred
,
C
,
O
,
Latin-P
,
U
,
N
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
Roman Empire
(former nation/state/empire) (
P,
H
)
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Arabia Petraea
(province) (
P,
H
)
Additional Parents:
World
(facet)
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Asia
(continent) (
P
)
........
Jordan
(nation) (
P
)
............
Arabia Petraea
(province) (
P
)
Place Types:
province (
preferred
,
H
)
Related geographic places:
capital is ....
Buṣrá ash Shām
.......... (inhabited place)
..................
(World, Asia, Syria, Dar‘ā, Muḩāfaz̧at) [1085119]
capital is ....
Petra
.......... (deserted settlement)
..................
(World, Asia, Jordan, Ma‘ān) [7002383]
Sources and Contributors:
Arabia Petraea..........
[
VP Preferred
]
.............................
Times Atlas of World History (1993)
336
Subject:
.....
[
VP
]
..................
Times Atlas of World History (1993)
336
Note:
English
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[
VP
]
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Encyclopedia Britannica Online (2002-2014)
accessed 27 July 2004
The J. Paul Getty Trust
© 2004 J. Paul Getty Trust
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