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    Gerrha (Ancient Greek: Γέρρα, romanized: Gérrha) was an ancient and renowned city within Eastern Arabia, on the west side of the persian Gulf. Known from...
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    earliest seaports in the region and has been linked to the ancient city of Gerrha mentioned in classical Greek and Roman sources. Uqair is also notable as...
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    settled". Gerrha was an ancient city of Eastern Arabia, on the west side of the Persian Gulf. More accurately, the ancient city of Gerrha has been determined...
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    influential civilizations starting from 3000 BCE onwards, such as Dilmun, Gerrha, and Magan, playing a vital role in trade between Mesopotamia, and the Mediterranean...
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    Nabataeans the Ptolemaic fortress of Gaza took control of the spice trade with Gerrha and Southern Arabia. Gaza experienced another siege in 96 BC by the Hasmonean...
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  • previous theories had suggested they instead were the eponymous residents of Gerrha in Eastern Arabia, which this inscription put to rest. According to Muslim...
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    because of trade happening there involving luxury products. In this context, Gerrha was an ancient city of great importance in Eastern Arabia. It was located...
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    Da'asa Dedan (Al-'Ula) Dibba Dumat Al-Jandal (Adummatu) Ed-Dur Failaka Gerrha Ḥaram Hili Archaeological Park Ibri Izki Jeddah Jubbah Julfar Kalba Kush...
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    Sea was Gerrha in the Persian Gulf, reported by the historian Strabo to have been founded by Babylonian exiles as a Chaldean colony. Gerrha exercised...
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    most important settlement on the southern coast of the Persian Gulf was Gerrha. In the second century the Lakhum tribe, who lived in what is now Yemen...
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  • appear that there exists a people richer than the Sabaeans and the people of Gerrha who were agents of everything which fell under the name of shipping between...
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  • al-Jandal, ancient city of ruins, Al Jawf Province Dumat al-Jandal Wall Gerrha, candidate archaeological sites in Eastern Arabia Hegra, archaeological...
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    Nabatea Iturea Seleucid Empire Coele-Syria Roman Syria Arabia Dilmun Magan Gerrha Awal Tylos Saba Qedar Qatabān Ḥaḍramawt Awsān Thamud Maʿīn Lihyan Nabataea...
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    Areion, Kandahar, Persepolis. Persian Gulf – Apologos, Asabon, Charax, Gerrha (or Gerra), Ommana. Red Sea – Adulis, Aualites, Berenica, Malao, ancient...
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    theophoric name invoking the goddess) was attested as the name of a man from Gerrha, a city located in the region. From Safaitic and Hismaic inscriptions, it...
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    Nabatea Iturea Seleucid Empire Coele-Syria Roman Syria Arabia Dilmun Magan Gerrha Awal Tylos Saba Qedar Qatabān Ḥaḍramawt Awsān Thamud Maʿīn Lihyan Nabataea...
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  • (2022) Dumat Al-Jandal 49,538 (2022) Dawadmi 86,861 (2022) Farasan Gatgat Gerrha Ghawiyah Village in Jizan Province Al-Gwei'iyyah Hautat Sudair 14,813 (2022)...
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  • Eastern Arabia Magan Dilmun Gerrha Awal Tylos Lakhmid Parthia Beth Qatraye Beth Manuzaye South Arabia Saba Kahlan Maʿīn Ḥaḍramawt Awsān Qatabān Himyar...
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    a cargo airline using "Dilmun" as radio call sign Dilmun Burial Mounds Gerrha Gilgamesh History of Bahrain History of Kuwait Indus–Mesopotamia relations...
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    towards Egypt and the Levant, and those leading to the northeast towards Gerrha near the Persian Gulf. The Roman prefect of Egypt Aelius Gallus led a costly...
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    AD 106. Charax was a prosperous port with ships arriving regularly from Gerrha, Egypt, India, and beyond. Trajan observed the ships bound for India during...
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    up from Southern Arabia and could be tapped by commanding Transjordan. Gerrha – inhabited by Chaldean exiles from Babylon – controlled the Incense trade...
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  • 1924 he fixed the position of Hofuf and identified the site of ancient Gerrha. He presented his findings to Ibn Sa'ud at his court in Hofuf. He was later...
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    AL4. Aulon AL5. Chimara AL6. Bouthroton AL7. Oricum AL8. Thronion AR1. Gerrha * Pseudo-Scymnus writes that some say that the city of Bizone belongs to...
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  • Gulf and receives tribute of 500 talents of silver from the citizens of Gerrha, a mercantile state on the west coast of the Persian Gulf. Antiochus III...
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    well as of another incense trading route which ran to the north-east until Gerrha, due to which Ḥaḍramawt also derived significant revenue from the transit...
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    Carolina". politicalgraveyard.com. Retrieved 2021-06-12. "Individual Page: gerrha -- Southern Ransoms". wc.rootsweb.com. Retrieved 2021-06-12. "National Register...
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    where it joined a trade route starting in Ḥaḍramawt and passing through Gerrha. By around c. 259 BC, the Qedarite territory in eastern Egypt had been made...
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