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    Arabia Felix (literally: Fertile/Happy Arabia; also Ancient Greek: Εὐδαίμων Ἀραβία, Eudaemon Arabia) was the Latin name previously used by geographers...
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    Arabia Felix. Arabia Deserta was one of three regions into which the Romans divided the Arabian peninsula: Arabia Deserta (or Arabia Magna), Arabia Felix...
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    inhabitants used a north–south division of Arabia: Al Sham-Al Yaman, or Arabia Deserta-Arabia Felix. Arabia Felix had originally been used for the whole peninsula...
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    country is fertile. The Romans called it Arabia Felix (fertile Arabia), as opposed to Arabia Deserta (deserted Arabia). Classical Latin and Greek writers used...
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  • every year from Berenice Troglodytica and many times touched southern Arabia Felix on their travel to India, while doing the Spice Route. Mostly in order...
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    and Egypt, and on the south and east by the rest of Arabia, known as Arabia Deserta and Arabia Felix. The territory was annexed by Emperor Trajan, like...
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  • country in the Arabian Peninsula Arabia Deserta, the desert interior of the Arabian Peninsula in modern-day Saudi Arabia Arabia Felix, modern-day Yemen...
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  • Felix Airways Limited, also known as Al Saeeda, (both meaning "Happy," from the Roman term for Yemen, Arabia Felix) is a regional airline based in Sana'a...
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  • people and fictional characters with the name Arabia Felix is the ancient Latin name of Yemen Felix, Spain, a municipality of the province Almería,...
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    Greeks called Yemen "Arabia Felix" (Happy Arabia). The Romans called the vassal nomadic states within the Roman Empire "Arabia Petraea" after the city...
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  • BC. He is primarily known for a disastrous expedition he undertook to Arabia Felix (modern day Yemen) under orders of Augustus. Aelius Gallus was the 2nd...
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    anti-Sasanid bloc in Arabia Felix. During the 2nd and 3rd centuries AD, the Southern part of Arabia, known in antiquity as Arabia Felix, had experienced Aksumite...
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    declared that this was the Omanum Emporium of Ptolemy's famous map of Arabia Felix. A contemporary notice at the entrance to an archaeological site at Shisr...
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    described Yemen as Eudaimon Arabia (better known in its Latin translation, Arabia Felix) meaning Fortunate Arabia or Happy Arabia. Between the eighth century...
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  • colonies; and they took possession of Troglodytis and the country of Arabia Felix, as far as it reaches to the Red Sea." Jokshan became the father of Sheba...
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  • colonies; and they took possession of Troglodytis and the country of Arabia Felix (Arabia the Happy), as far as it reaches to the Red Sea." Little else is...
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    land of most of Arabia. The Romans called it Arabia Felix ("happy" or "fortunate" Arabia"), as opposed to Arabia Deserta ("deserted Arabia"). Latin and Greek...
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  • country of Arabia Felix, as far as it reaches to the Red Sea." For such reasons, Zimran has also been tentatively identified by some with the Arabian town of...
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    Mecca (redirect from Mecca, Saudi Arabia)
    Macoraba, another ancient city name mentioned by Claudius Ptolemy Felix' Arabia Felix, was also claimed to be Mecca. Some studies have questioned this...
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  • chronicled by the 20th century novelist, Thorkild Hansen, in his novel Arabia Felix. Six people went on the expedition, and five died. † denotes which members...
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    Taran Yaub, ca. 200 A.D. … | Drouot.com". drouot.com. "Greek Coinage; Arabia Felix Himyarites, 1st Century AD, NGC VF, Store #191510". Integrity Coin Store...
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    570 (section Arabia)
    Werner Daum (education) Yemen: "3000 Years of Art and Civilization in Arabia Felix" (1987) Meyers, Eric M. (1999). Galilee Through the Centuries Confluence...
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    p. 260. Teixidor 2015, p. 90. J. F. Breton (Trans. Albert LaFarge), Arabia Felix From The Time Of The Queen Of Sheba, Eighth Century B.C. To First Century...
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    Eudaimon Arabia (better known in its Latin translation, Arabia Felix) meaning "fortunate Arabia" or "Happy Arabia". Yemenis had developed the South Arabian alphabet...
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    however, is not indigenous to Egypt, but the layers are brought there from Arabia Felix; Prosperus Alpinus has published a plate of it. Dioscorides (De materia...
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    quite well known in the classical world, and its country was called Arabia Felix. Around the mid-1st millennium BC, there were Sabaeans also in Ethiopia...
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  • said by Josephus to have settled "Troglodytis" and Arabia Felix Hijaz – the mountains on the Arabian coast of the Red Sea identified by Josephus Thamud...
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    Arabs (redirect from Arabian culture)
    Arabi. The Romans called Yemen "Arabia Felix". The Romans called the vassal nomadic states within the Roman Empire Arabia Petraea, after the city of Petra...
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  • Greenwood. ISBN 9780313349904. J. F. Breton (Trans. Albert LaFarge), Arabia Felix From The Time Of The Queen Of Sheba, Eighth Century B.C. To First Century...
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    1960s and 1970s, which originally included both Egypt and Syria. Arabia Felix Arabian Peninsula Cradle of civilization Fertile Crescent Levant Maghreb...
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