Peraia

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Perea redirects here. For the surname see Perea (surname).

Peraia (Greek: Περαία, Latin: Peræa), also written as Perea, has the meaning of "place across the passage", usually a place lying across the sea from a city or an island, and may refer to any of several places, including:

in Greece

• Peraia, Pella, a village in the Pella Prefecture
• Peraia, Thessaloniki, a suburban city in the southcentral part of the Thessaloniki Prefecture

in the Middle East

• Perea (Holy Land), a region of Ancient Israel east of the Jordan river

in Asia Minor

• Peræa Rhodiorum, later Kaunos or Caunus, an ancient city of Caria, now located near Dalyan, Muğla Province, Turkey

Names of similar provenance and meaning include:

• Piraeus, the port of Athens, Greece
• Pera, in Istanbul, Turkey
• Perateia, a medieval Byzantine province in the Crimea