Rulers of Nabatea

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The Rulers of Nabatea are those who reigned over the region of Nabatea (also rendered as Nabathea), inhabited by the Nabateans, a territory located in present-day Jordan, southern Syria, southern Israel and north-western Saudi Arabia.

[edit] The Kings of Nabatea

• Aretas I, reigning in 169 BC
• Malichus I
• Erotimus, 110-100 BC
• Aretas II, 120 or 110 to 96 BC, in some sources appears as successor to Rabbel I
• Obodas I (aka Advat), from 90 BC
• Rabbel I, from 140 BC, in some sources appears as successor to Aretas I
• Aretas III Philhellen, 82/87-62 BC, recognised by Rome in 62 BC
• Obodas II, whose existence was uncertain until recently; probably ruled a few months
• Malichus II, 47 or 60-30 BC, who became vassal of Herod the Great and Rome
• Obodas III, 30-9 BC, vassal of Rome; probably ruled a few months; formerly known as Obodas II
• Aretas IV Philopatris, 9-AD 40
  • Queen Chuldu
  • Queen Shaqilath
• Malichus II, 40-70/71
  • Queen Shaqilath
• Rabbel II Soter, 70/71-106
  • Queen Gamilath

In 106, Nabatea was annexed by Trajan, becoming the Roman province of Arabia Petraea.

[edit] See also

• Lists of office-holders

[edit] Sources

• Ross, Martha, Rulers and Governments of the World - Vol1, Earliest Times to 1491, Bowker Publishing Company Ltd, London & New York, 1978