Petra (disambiguation)
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Petra is the Nabataean kingdom capital's archeological site, carved in the desert rock of (Trans)Jordan.
Petra, PETRA or Petria may also refer to :
- Petra papyri, AKA Petra archive, a corpus of papyrus documents in Greek from to the sixth century AD that were discovered there
Places and jurisdictions
Mediterranean
- 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
- Other
- Petra in Aegypto, a Hellenistic city and former bishopric in Aegyptus Primus, now Hagar-En-Nauatiyeh (Egypt) and a Latin Catholic titular see
- Petra, Cyprus, a former intercommunal village in Northern Cyprus
- Petra, Majorca, a town in Balearic Spain
Elsewhere
- Black Sea
- Petra, Lazica, alias Petra in Lazica, a Roman fortress, settlement and former bishopric in Colchis, modern Georgia, now a Latin Catholic titular see
- Petra, a village in Bâcleș Commune, Mehedinţi County, Romania
- Other
- Petra, Kentucky, an unincorporated community in the US
People
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
- Petra Venj, the main story agent in the "House of Wolves" expansion for Bungie's Destiny
- Petra, a character from Minecraft: Story Mode.
Other uses
- Petra Airlines, a former airline based in Amman, Jordan
- 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
- Petra High School, an independent school in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe
- SS Petra, a West German merchant ship
- Petra (sculpture), a 2010 sculpture by Marcel Walldorf
- Petria (brachiopod), a brachiopod genus
- Petra (play), a 2014 play by John Yarbrough
- Petra, database system used by the UK Citizens Advice Bureau from 2011
See also
- Petra tou Romiou, a sea stack in Pafos, Cyprus
- Pietra (disambiguation)
- Peter (name)
- Petroleum
- Petrus (disambiguation)
- Peta-
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