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The Nabateans were a Semitic population living in Southern Jordan and the northern part of Arabia.

Overview

In the Greek and Roman Period the Nabateans created a powerful kingdom at the borders of the land of Israel. Their cities (Petra and Bosra) controlled the commercial routes from the Arabian peninsula to the Mediterranean.

The Nabateans supported the Maccabeans in their fight against the Seleucids but then resisted to the expansion of the Hasmoneans kings and Herod the Great.

In 106 the Nabaten kingdom was absorbed into the Roman Empire. As part of the new province of Arabia Petrae, the Nabatean towns continued to flourished in the centuries to come.

The Nabateans in ancient sources

The Nabateans in Scholarship

The Nabateans in Fiction

External links

Wikipedia

Major articles

History of the Nabatean Kings / Schurer/Vermes / 1 (1973) 574-586

Pages in category "Nabateans (subject)"

The following 9 pages are in this category, out of 9 total.

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Quellen zur Geschichte der Nabatäer (2003 Hackl, Jenni, Schneider), book

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-The '''Nabateans''' were a Semitic population living in Southern Jordan and the northern part of Arabia, who in the Greek and Roman Period created a kingdom at the borders of the land of Israel.
+The '''Nabateans''' were a Semitic population living in Southern Jordan and the northern part of Arabia.
 ==Overview==
+In the Greek and Roman Period the Nabateans created a powerful kingdom at the borders of the land of Israel. Their cities ([[Petra]] and [[Bosra]]) controlled the commercial routes from the Arabian peninsula to the Mediterranean.
+The Nabateans supported the Maccabeans in their fight against the [[Seleucids]] but then resisted to the expansion of the Hasmoneans kings and [[Herod the Great]].
+In 106 the Nabaten kingdom was absorbed into the Roman Empire. As part of the new province of [[Arabia Petrae]], the Nabatean towns continued to flourished in the centuries to come.
 ==The Nabateans in ancient sources==