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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.
Feb 14, 2022 · The Roman period in Jordan began in 63 BC when General Pompey occupied the regions northwest of the Nabataean Kingdom. Afterwards, northern Jordan became part of the Roman ‘Province of Syria’ that was established in the first century AD.
Arabia, Roman province created out of the former kingdom of the Nabataeans and the adjacent Syrian cities of Gerasa and Philadelphia (modern Jarash and ʿAmmān, Jordan, respectively), after the formal annexation of the Nabataean kingdom by the Roman emperor Trajan in 105 ce. The province was bounded.
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Aug 9, 2023 · Back to the Roman period, Jerash formed part of the Roman province of Syria when General Pompey came to conquer the region in 64 BC. Jerash grew so much that it became one of the 10 cities of the Decapolis league – a group of ten Hellenistic cities located in the Southern Levant in the first centuries BC and AD.
Mar 5, 2018 · Jordan is a country in the Near East bordered by Israel, Syria, Iraq, and Saudi Arabia which was part of the Land of Canaan in ancient times. The country is named for the River Jordan which flows between modern-day Jordan and Israel and whose name means "to descend" or "flow downwards".
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Jerash in Jordan becomes part of the Roman province of Arabia . 106 CE - c. 634 CE. Jordan is part of the Roman Empire .
Oct 18, 2018 · Jerash (aka Gerasa, Gerash or Gerasha) is the capital and the largest city of the Jerash Governorate in Jordan, but in ancient times it was one of the wealthiest and most cosmopolitan cities in the ancient Near East.
