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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Arabia

1711; see Arab + -ia. The older name for "the country of Arabia" was Araby (late 13c.).

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arabia

n. 1 a peninsula between the Red Sea and the Persian Gulf; includes Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Oman, Qatar, Bahrain, Kuwait, and the United Arab Emirates. 2 (qualifier: broader sense) the region within or adjacent to the Arabian Plate; includes Lebanon, Syria, Yemen, Oman, Qatar, Bahrain, Kuwait, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, the Egyptian Sinai, Palestine and the United Arab Emirates.

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Arabia (disambiguation)

Arabia may refer to:

Geography
  • Arabian Plate, a minor tectonic plate
  • Arab world, twenty-three Arabic-speaking countries
  • Arabian Peninsula, a geographic area in Asia
  • Saudi Arabia, the largest country in the Arabian Peninsula
  • Arabia Deserta, the desert interior of the Arabian Peninsula
  • Arabia Felix, modern-day Yemen
  • Arab Union, a proposed Pan-Arab state
  • Arabia Petraea, a Roman province
  • Arabia, Finland, a neighbourhood of Helsinki
  • Arabia, Indiana, a community in the United States
  • Arabia, Nebraska, a community in the United States
  • Arabia (satrapy), a satrapy (province) of the Achaemenid Empire and later of the Sassanid Empire, by the name of Arabistan
People
  • Arabia (daughter of Justin II), the only recorded daughter of Byzantine emperor Justin II (r. 565–578) and his empress Sophia
Language
  • A romanized spelling of `Arabīya = the Arabic language
Astronomy
  • 1157 Arabia, an asteroid
  • Arabia Terra, a large upland region on Mars' northern hemisphere
  • Arabia quadrangle, one of a series of 30 quadrangle maps of Mars used by the United States Geological Survey Astrogeology Research Program
Ships
  • RMS Arabia, a passenger liner sunk in World War I
  • Arabia (steamboat), a Steamboat that sunk in the Missouri River in 1856 and was excavated from 1988–1989

  • , a United States Navy patrol vessel in commission during 1918

Other
  • Arabia (company), a Finnish ceramics manufacturer
  • Arabia (film), an Indian film
  • Arabia (2011 film) a documentary film about modern Saudi Arabia in an IMAX style; filmed in 3D by MacGillivray Freeman Films.
Arabia (brand)

Arabia is a Finnish ceramics company, founded in 1873 by Rörstrand, and currently owned by Fiskars. Arabia has specialized in kitchenware and tableware.

The original Arabia porcelain factory is located in Toukola ( Helsinki); now it houses Aalto University School of Arts, Design and Architecture.

Ulla Procopé and Esteri Tomula were among the best-known artists and designers for the company.

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Arabia (daughter of Justin II)

Arabia was the only recorded daughter of Byzantine emperor Justin II (r. 565–578) and his empress Sophia.

Arabia (film)

Arabia is a 1995 Indian Malayalam film, directed by Jayaraj, starring Babu Antony, Charmila and Anusha in the lead roles.

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These new rulers, who added the Byzantine Empire to Islam, who with Egypt brought Southern and Western Arabia with the Holy Cities also under their authority, and caused all the neighbouring princes, Moslim and Christian alike, to tremble on their thrones, thought it was time to abolish the senseless survival of the Abbasid glory.

Saudi Arabia and the United States supplied billions of dollars worth of secret assistance to rebel groups in Afghanistan fighting the Soviet occupation.

To Flight Sergeant Slingsby, who could still remember the days before Hubert Scott-Paine and Aircraftman Shaw, once Lawrence of Arabia, had produced the first R A F.

His mother, Amani, was an Outsider who originally heralded from the country of Saudi Arabia.

In the far distance, miles away, on a hilltop overlooking Avignon, stood a palace stronghold with an Oriental appearance, like something from Arabia.

The six GCC states are Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates, and Oman.

Iraq did fight back, launching volleys of al-Hussein modified Scud missiles at Israel, Saudi Arabia, and Bahrain, but U.

Iraq launched 330 Scud-Bs and 203 al-Husseins against Iranian cities during the Iran-Iraq War and 88 al-Husseins at Israel, Saudi Arabia, and Bahrain during the Gulf War.

During the 1967 Arab-Israeli War, there was anti-American rioting in Bahrain and Saudi Arabia that caused considerable damage to many American businesses.

Pakistan, Afghanistan, Uzbekistan, Georgia, Turkey, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Qatar, Oman, and the Persian Gulf.

In fact to handle that many aircraft, we would probably need bases in Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Qatar, Bahrain, Oman, and Turkey.

But it may be presumed that they passed over the southern Persian deserts of Sigiston, Makran and Kirman, along the Persian Gulph to the mouth of the Euphrates, thence to Bassora into the deserts of Arabia, and thence into Egypt by the Isthmus of Suez.

Although we regard the buccina as essentially Roman, an instrument of the same type, but probably straight and of kindred name, was widely known and used in the East, in Persia, Arabia and among the Semitic races.

Saudi Arabia to contribute millions of dollars to the contras when Congress had denied U.

The admiral had played a key part in the logistics buildup that helped force Iraq out of Kuwait and had later counseled that the drawdown of forces from Saudi Arabia following the successful conclusion of the war, leaving only a small trip-wire force in Kuwait and massive military stockpiles in the Saudi desert, was premature.