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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- An ancient kingdom of southwest Asia in present-day Jordan, flourishing from the fourth century BC to AD 106, when it was conquered by Rome. Petra was its capital.
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Examples
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Barred from teaching at King Saud University in 2001, the scholar has examined the situation of Nabataea, a kingdom that at the beginning of the Christian era included parts of modern-day Jordan, Syria, and Saudi Arabia, and had its capital in Petra.
Saudi women had more rights at the time of the Romans than today Jan 2008
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Barred from teaching at King Saud University in 2001, the scholar has examined the situation of Nabataea, a kingdom that at the beginning of the Christian era included parts of modern-day Jordan, Syria, and Saudi Arabia, and had its capital in Petra.
Archive 2008-05-01 Jan 2008
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Following the wadi would have taken them, unless I am mistaken, through Nabataea, and the Nabataean alphabet presumably contributed something to the script that the Mandaeans came to use.
Wadi Hawran and Haran Gawaita James F. McGrath 2008
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But no sooner was the fleet anchored in Heroönopolis than Malchus of Nabataea descended and burned every galley to the waterline.
Antony and Cleopatra Colleen McCullough 2007
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They have belonged to Nabataea for time immemorial.
Antony and Cleopatra Colleen McCullough 2007
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To Nabataea, which would give him one of the two great fleets engaged in trade with India and Taprobane.
Antony and Cleopatra Colleen McCullough 2007
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Malchus of Nabataea lost the bitumen, but nothing else; in return for what Octavian saw as leniency, Malchus was to watch the Egyptian fleets in the Sinus Arabicus and deal with any unusual activity there.
Antony and Cleopatra Colleen McCullough 2007
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To Nabataea, which would give him one of the two great fleets engaged in trade with India and Taprobane.
Antony and Cleopatra Colleen McCullough 2007
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The pearls are so perfectly matched that he thinks it was made for a queen—Egypt or Nabataea, probably, since they bring the pearls from Taprobane.
Antony and Cleopatra Colleen McCullough 2007
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The best news is that I have wrested the bitumen fisheries off Malchus of Nabataea, who sided with the Parthians and refused me, his own nephew, succor.
Antony and Cleopatra Colleen McCullough 2007
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