Arabia

There are 181 items in Arabia:

Diodorus on the Nabataeans

In c.312 BCE, king Antigonus I Monophthalmus tried to subdue the Nabataeans. Several officers were involved, like Athenaeus, the king's son Demetrius, and Hieronymus of Cardia, a historian. His account of the events was excerpted by the Greek historian Diodorus…

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Duma

Duma: oasis halfway between the Gulf of Aqaba and southern Babylonia, modern Al-Jawf. The Assyrian attack the Arabs Duma, known to the…

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Edomites

Edom: Iron Age kingdom, directly south of the Dead Sea, situated in modern Jordan and Israel. In Greek, it is called Idumea.Bronze Age …

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