- romanized: Al-Batrāʾ;
Ancient Gr****: Πέτρα "Rock"),
originally known to its
inhabitants as
Raqmu (Nabataean: 𐢛𐢚𐢒 or 𐢛𐢚𐢓𐢈, *Raqēmō), is a
historic and archaeological...
- Levant.
Their settlements—most
prominently the ****umed
capital city of
Raqmu (present-day Petra, Jordan)—gave the name
Nabatene (Ancient Gr****: Ναβατηνή...
- Seleucid-Ptolemic wars to
establish their Nabatean Kingdom centered in
Raqmu (Petra) in the
third century BC,
which kept
Philadelphia in a
border zone...
-
Ptolemaic Egypt. Its
capital was
Raqmu (Petra), and it
included the
towns of Bosra,
Hegra (Mada'in Saleh), and Nitzana/Nessana.
Raqmu was a
wealthy trading town...
- Bambyce, Hierapolis)
Megiddo (Tel Megiddo, Tell el-Mutesellim)
Petra (
Raqmu)
Qatna (Tell Mishrifeh)
Rabbath Ammon (Philadelphia) Tel
Rehov (Rehov?)...
- Levant.
Their settlements—most
prominently the ****umed
capital city of
Raqmu (present-day Petra, Jordan)—gave the name
Nabatene (Ancient Gr****: Ναβατηνή...
