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Petraea may refer to :
- Arabia Petraea, a frontier province of the Roman Empire
Usage examples of "petraea".
In the north lies Arabia Petraea, a prosperous mercantile region bordering on Syria Palaestina.
Arabia Petraea has been an Imperial province Since the reign of Augustus Caesar, six hundred years ago.
Gladly would I have settled for Arabia Petraea if I had to go to Arabia at all: it is a reasonable destination for a highly placed Roman gentleman temporarily out of favor with his monarch.
Arabia Petraea just to the north had long been under the Eastern Empire's administration, he pointed out, and that was true also of the provinces of Syria Palaestina and Aiguptos and Cappadocia and Mesopotamia and all those other sunny eastern lands that Constantinus, at the time of the original division of the realm, had placed under the jurisdiction of the Emperor who would sit at Constantinopolis.
This cape forms the extremity of Arabia Petraea, comprised between the Gulf of Suez and the Gulf of Acabah.