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Arabia Petraea
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Arabia Petraea
Arabia Petraea
, also called
Provincia Arabia
or simply
Arabia
, was a frontier
province
of the
Roman Empire
beginning in the 2nd century; it consisted of the former
Nabataean kingdom
in
Jordan
, southern
Levant
, the
Sinai Peninsula
and northwestern
Arabian peninsula
. Its capital was
Petra
. It was bordered on the north by
Syria
, on the west by
Iudaea
(merged with Syria from 135 AD) and
Aegyptus
, and on the south and east by the rest of Arabia, known as
Arabia Deserta
and
Arabia Felix
.
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