Petra Petra ( ar, ٱلْبَتْرَاء, Al-Batrāʾ; grc, Πέτρα, "Rock", Nabataean Aramaic, Nabataean: ), originally known to its inhabitants as Raqmu or Raqēmō, is an historic and archaeological city in southern Jordan. It is adjacent to t ...

is the Nabataean kingdom capital's archeological site, carved in the desert rock of (Trans)Jordan. Petra, PETRA or Petria may also refer to :

Places and jurisdictions

Mediterranean

Greece * Petra (Corinthia), a town of ancient Corinthia *

Petra (Elis) Petra ( grc, Πέτρα) was an ancient settlement belonging to ancient Elis. Pausanias (geographer), Pausanias writes that it was in the immediate neighbourhood of Elis (city), Elis and contained the tomb of the philosopher Pyrrho. Its precise loca ...

, a town of ancient Elis * Petra, Boeotia, a village and community of the Aliartos municipality *

Petra, Lesbos Petra (Greek: Πέτρα meaning rock) is a former municipality on the island of Lesbos, North Aegean, Greece. Since the 2019 local government reform it is part of the municipality of West Lesbos, of which it is a municipal unit. It is located at t ...

, a village and former municipality on the island of Lesbos *

Petra, Pieria Petra ( el, Πέτρα) is a former municipality in Pieria regional unit, Greece. Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality Katerini, of which it is a municipal unit. The municipal unit has an area of 219.318 km2 ...

, a former municipality in Pieria regional unit *

Petra, Preveza Petra ( el, Πέτρα) is a historical village in the Preveza Prefecture in western Greece, near the town of Filippiada Filippiada ( el, Φιλιππιάδα) is a small town and a former municipality in the Preveza regional unit, Epirus, Greece ...

, a village in Preveza regional unit Other * Petra (Illyria), a town of ancient Illyricum, now in Albania * Petra (Lycaonia), a town of ancient Lycaonia, now in Turkey * 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 Petra ( gr, Πέτρα; tr, Petre or ) is a former village in Cyprus, now uninhabited and largely destroyed. It is located east of the town of Lefka and just north the Green Line. ''De facto'', Petra is under the control of Northern Cyprus. Pe ...

, a former intercommunal village in Northern Cyprus * Petra, Majorca, a town in Balearic Spain

Elsewhere

Black Sea *

Petra, Lazica Petra () was a fortified town on the eastern Black Sea coast, in Lazica in what is now western Georgia. In the 6th century, under the Byzantine emperor Justinian I, it served as an important Eastern Roman outpost in the Caucasus and, due to its st ...

, 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 Bâcleș is a commune located in Mehedinți County, Romania. It is composed of seven villages: Bâcleș, Corzu, Giura, Petra, Podu Grosului, Seliștiuța and Smadovița. It is situated in the historical region of Oltenia Oltenia (, also called L ...

Commune, Mehedinţi County, Romania Other * Petra, Kentucky, an unincorporated community in the US

People

Petra (given name) Petra is a feminine given name. It is a feminine form of Peter, which is derived from the Greek word "πέτρα" () meaning "stone, rock". It is also a common first name in German-speaking countries, the Czech Republic, Finland, Sweden, Croatia, ...

Arts and entertainment

Petra (band) Petra is an American music group regarded as a pioneer of the Christian rock and contemporary Christian music genres and was, for many years, regarded as the "world's most popular Christian rock band". Formed in 1972, the band took its name from ...

, a Christian rock band ** ''Petra'' (album), their debut album * ''Petra'' (film), a 2018 Spanish film * ''Petra'' (sculpture), a 2010 sculpture by Marcel Walldorf * ''Petra'' (TV series), a 2020 Italian TV crime series

Business

Petra (agency) The Jordan News Agency (In Arabic: وكالة الأنباء الأردنية) (Shortly Petra) is the news agency of Jordan. History Petra was established on 16th of July, 1969, as an independent body linked to the ministry of information. It ...

, Jordanian news agency *

PETRA Petra ( ar, ٱلْبَتْرَاء, Al-Batrāʾ; grc, Πέτρα, "Rock", Nabataean Aramaic, Nabataean: ), originally known to its inhabitants as Raqmu or Raqēmō, is an historic and archaeological city in southern Jordan. It is adjacent to t ...

(Positron-Electron Tandem Ring Accelerator), a particle accelerator * Petra Airlines, former airline based in Amman, Jordan *

Petra Bank Petra Bank was a Jordanian bank. It began in 1956 when Prince Hassan bin Talal, the Crown Prince of Jordan approached Ahmad Chalabi, an Iraqi economist while the latter was teaching at the American University of Beirut to launch a new Jordanian ba ...

, bankrupt Jordanian bank *

Petra Diamonds Petra Diamonds Ltd is a diamond mining group headquartered in Jersey. Petra own one of the world's most productive mines historically, the Premier Mine, Cullinan Diamond Mine is famed for having produced the Cullinan Diamond, world's largest roug ...

, diamond mining company * SS ''Petra'', a West German merchant ship

Other uses

* Petra (dog), a dog on the British children's TV programme ''Blue Peter'' *

Petra High School Petra High School (or Petra) is an independent, co-educational, school in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe. Petra was founded in 1993. Petra High School is a member of the Association of Trust Schools (ATS) and the Headmistress is a member of the Conferenc ...

, an independent school in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe * Petra (swan), an animal who become famous in 2006 for falling in love with a pedalo * '' Petria (brachiopod)'', a

brachiopod Brachiopods (), phylum Brachiopoda, are a phylum of trochozoan animals that have hard "valves" (shells) on the upper and lower surfaces, unlike the left and right arrangement in bivalve molluscs. Brachiopod valves are hinged at the rear end, w ...

genus * Petra, database system used by the UK

Citizens Advice Bureau Citizens AdviceCitizens Advice is the operating name of The National Association of Citizens Advice Bureaux which is the umbrella charity for a wider network of local advice centres. The abbreviation CitA is sometimes used to refer to this nation ...

from 2011