List of rulers of Nabatea
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The Rulers of Nabatea, 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] List of rulers of Nabatea
Reign | Name | Notes |
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Kings of Nabatea | ||
ante169BC to post169BC | Aretas | |
144 to 110 | Malichus I | |
110 to 100 | Erotimus | |
120* or 110* to 96 | Aretas | *In some sources appears as successor to Rabbel |
90 to ??? | Obodas Advat |
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140* to ??? | Rabbel | *In some sources appears as successor to Aretas |
82 or 87 to 62 | Aretas Philhellen | Recognised by Rome 62BC |
??? to ??? | Obodas | Existence uncertain until recently; probably ruled a few months |
c47 or 60 to 30 | Malichus | Becoming vassal of Herod the Great and Rome |
30 to 9 | Obodas | Vassal of Rome; probably ruled a few months; previously known to history as Obodas II |
9BC to AD40 | Aretas Philopatris | |
Chuldu, Queen | ||
Shaqilath, Queen | ||
40 to 70/71 | Malichus | |
Shaqilath, Queen | ||
70/71 to 106 | Rabbel Soter | |
Gamilath, Queen | ||
106 | Annexed by Trajan becoming the Roman province of Arabia |
[edit] See also
[edit] Sources
- Jewish Virtual Library: http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/History/nabkings.html
- Ross, Martha, Rulers and Governments of the World - Vol1, Earliest Times to 1491, Bowker Publishing Company Ltd, London & New York, 1978