Petra (disambiguation)

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Petra is an archeological site in Jordan.

Petra or Petria may also refer to:

Places

• Petra, Cyprus, a former intercommunal village in Northern Cyprus
• Petra, Majorca, a town in Spain
• Petra, Kentucky, an unincorporated community in the US
• Petra, a village in Bâcleș Commune, Mehedinţi County, Romania

Greece

• Petra, Boeotia, a village and a community of the Aliartos municipality
• Petra, Lesbos, a former municipality on the island of Lesbos
• Petra, Pieria, a former municipality in Pieria regional unit

People

• Petra (given name), a female given name (including a list of people with the name)
• Petra Scharbach, best known as Petra, a German actress and painter
• Petria Thomas (born 1975), Australian swimmer

Fictional characters

• Petra (comics), in Marvel Comics
• Petra Strorm, in John Wyndham's novel The Chrysalids
• Petra, in Broken Sword: The Sleeping Dragon
• Petra Arkanian, in a book series by Orson Scott Card
• Petra Andalee, the protagonist that appears in Blue Balliett's Chasing Vermeer and The Wright 3
• Queen Petra of Siphnos, a queen from Goddess of Yesterday
• Petra Ral, a character from the Attack On Titan anime series
• Petra, in the webcomic Okashina Okashi – Strange Candy

Other uses

• Petra (band), a Christian rock band
  • Petra (album), their debut album
• Petra (dog), a dog on the British children's TV program Blue Peter
• Petra (agency), the Jordanian news agency
• PETRA (Positron-Electron Tandem Ring Accelerator), a particle accelerator
• Petra Diamonds, a diamond mining company
• SS Petra, a West German merchant ship
• Petra (sculpture), a 2010 sculpture by Marcel Walldorf
• Petria (brachiopod), a brachiopod genus

See also

• Petra tou Romiou, a sea stack in Pafos, Cyprus
• Pietra (disambiguation)
• Peter (name)
• Petroleum
• Peta-