Arabia (disambiguation)

Look up Arabia, arabia, Arábia, or Arabía in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.

Arabia may refer to:

Geography

• Arab world, twenty-three Arabic-speaking countries
• Arabian Peninsula, a geographic area in Asia
• Saudi Arabia, the largest country in the Arabian Peninsula
• Arabia Deserta, the desert interior of the Arabian Peninsula
• Arabia Felix, modern-day Yemen
• Arab Union, a proposed Pan-Arab state
• Arabia Petraea, a Roman province
• Arabia, Finland, a neighbourhood of Helsinki
• Arabia, Indiana, a community in the United States
• Arabia, Nebraska, a community in the United States
• Arabia (satrapy), a satrapy (province) of the Achaemenid Empire and later of the Sassanid Empire, by the name of Arabistan

People

• Arabia (daughter of Justin II), the only recorded daughter of Byzantine emperor Justin II (r. 565–578) and his empress Sophia

Language

• A romanized spelling of `Arabīya = the Arabic language

Astronomy

• 1157 Arabia, an asteroid
• Arabia Terra, a large upland region on Mars' northern hemisphere
• Arabia quadrangle, one of a series of 30 quadrangle maps of Mars used by the United States Geological Survey Astrogeology Research Program

Ships

• RMS Arabia, a passenger liner sunk in World War I
• Arabia (steamboat), a Steamboat that sunk in the Missouri River in 1856 and was excavated from 1988–1989
• USS Arabia (ID-3434), a United States Navy patrol vessel in commission during 1918

Other

• Arabia (company), a Finnish ceramics manufacturer
• Arabia (film), an Indian film
• Arabia (2011 film) a documentary film about modern Saudi Arabia in an IMAX style; filmed in 3D by MacGillivray Freeman Films.^[1]

See also

• Arab (disambiguation)
• Arabian (disambiguation)

References