For the Achaemenid satrapy of Arabia, see Achaemenid Arabia.
For the author of the work "Arabia Petraea", see Alois Musil.
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Provincia Arabia Petraea Ἐπαρχία Πετραίας Ἀραβίας العَرَبِيَّة الصَخْرِيِّة
Province of Roman Empire, Byzantine Empire
106–630s
The Roman Empire c. 125 AD, with the province of Arabia Petraea highlighted.
Capital
Petra, Bostra
History
• Roman conquest
106
• Palaestina Salutaris established
390
• Muslim conquest
630s
Preceded by
Succeeded by
Nabatean kingdom
Decapolis
Palaestina Salutaris
Ghassanids
Arabia Petraea or Petrea, also known as Rome's Arabian Province (Latin: Provincia Arabia; Arabic: العربية الصخرية; Ancient Greek: Ἐπαρχία Πετραίας Ἀραβίας) or simply Arabia, was a frontier province of the Roman Empire beginning in the 2nd century. It consisted of the former Nabataean Kingdom in the 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 Judaea (merged with Syria from AD 135) and Egypt, and on the south and east by the rest of Arabia, known as Arabia Deserta and Arabia Felix.
The territory was annexed by Emperor Trajan, like many other eastern frontier provinces of the Roman Empire, but held onto, unlike Armenia, Mesopotamia and Assyria, well after Trajan's rule, its desert frontier being called the Limes Arabicus. It produced the Emperor Philippus, who was born around 204. As a frontier province, it included a desert populated by Arabic tribes, and bordering the Parthian hinterland.
Though subject to eventual attack and deprivation by the Parthians and Palmyrenes, it had nothing like the constant incursions faced in other areas on the Roman frontier, such as Germany and North Africa, or the entrenched cultural presence that defined the other more Hellenized eastern provinces.
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