Arabia Petraea

[pi-tree-uh]

noun

1. an ancient division of Arabia, in the NW part.

Example Sentences

In 1850 he went to Egypt where he learnt Arabic, afterwards visiting Arabia Petraea.

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In the old copper-smelting district of Arabia Petraea, clay blast-pipes dating back to the earlier dynasties of ancient Egypt have been found buried in slag heaps; and in India the native smiths and iron-workers continue to use furnaces of similar types.

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To whom, then, can we attribute the origin of this custom; to a nation from whom five or six others acknowledge they took it, or to another nation, much less powerful, less commercial, less warlike, hid away in a corner of Arabia Petraea, and which never communicated any one of its usages to any other people?

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She left her husband to come to him, and he sent away his own wife, the daughter of Aretas, the king of Arabia Petraea.

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At that juncture I happened to accompany a party of friends on a journey to Hijaz, or Arabia Petraea.

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