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Arabia Felix

American  
[fee-liks] / ˈfi lɪks /

noun

  1. an ancient division of Arabia, in the S part: sometimes restricted to Yemen.


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And the children, women, men, cities and landscapes of the former Arabia Felix are paying the price.

From New York Times ● Oct. 31, 2018

In the first century BCE, Augustus Caesar sent 10,000 troops to invade what the Romans called Arabia Felix to find the source of frankincense and to control its production.

From BBC ● Feb. 9, 2010

In times past, fertile Yemen, known as Arabia Felix, was the granary of Arabia, but it now must buy wheat and butter abroad.

From Time Magazine Archive

The peninsula is joined to the mainland, Arabia Felix, by a narrow sandy isthmus, nearly level with the ocean.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 57, No. 352, February 1845 by Various

His generals, in the early part of his reign, attempted the reduction of Æthiopia and Arabia Felix.

From The Ontario Readers: The High School Reader, 1886 by Ontario. Ministry of Education

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