{"slug": "nabataean-kingdom", "label": "Nabataean Kingdom", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nabataean_Kingdom", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q11029653", "qid": "Q11029653", "description": "ancient Arab Kingdom (3rd century BC - 106 AD)", "entries": 8, "years": 7, "span": [-83, 106], "span_label": ["84 BCE", "106 CE"], "topics": [{"title": "Conflict & Security", "count": 5}, {"title": "Deaths", "count": 3}], "also_known_as": ["Nabataea", "Nabatea", "Nabatean Kingdom"], "related": [{"slug": "syria", "label": "Syria", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "bosra", "label": "Bosra", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "roman-republic", "label": "Roman Republic", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "alexandria", "label": "Alexandria", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "ancient-egypt", "label": "Ancient Egypt", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "red-sea", "label": "Red Sea", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "cleopatra", "label": "Cleopatra", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "seleucid-empire", "label": "Seleucid Empire", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "jordan", "label": "Jordan", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "tiberius", "label": "Tiberius", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "roman-syria", "label": "Roman Syria", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "josephus", "label": "Josephus", "shared": 1}], "items": [{"year": -83, "year_label": "84 BCE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Battle of Cana: The Arab Nabataean Kingdom decisively defeats the Greek Seleucid Empire, slaying King Antiochus XII Dionysus, at modern-day Umm Qais in Jordan.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1209580598#Asia", "title": "84 BC", "revid": 1209580598, "section": "Events › By place › Asia"}}, {"year": -59, "year_label": "60 BCE", "section": "Deaths", "date": null, "text": "Aretas III Philhellen, king of Nabatea (approximate date)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1359808394#Deaths", "title": "60 BC", "revid": 1359808394, "section": "Deaths"}}, {"year": -29, "year_label": "30 BCE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "August 1", "text": "August 1 – Octavian Caesar captures Alexandria. This marks the official annexation of Ancient Egypt to the Roman Republic. Cleopatra evacuates her court and treasury to Berenice on the west coast of the Red Sea, but king Malchus of Nabatea attacks from the desert and burns the Egyptian ships.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1357307367#Roman_Republic", "title": "30 BC", "revid": 1357307367, "section": "Events › By place › Roman Republic"}}, {"year": 36, "year_label": "36 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Herod Antipas suffers major losses in a war with Aretas IV of Nabatea, provoked partly by Antipas' divorce of Aretas' daughter. According to Josephus, Herod's defeat was popularly believed to be divine punishment for his execution of John the Baptist. Emperor Tiberius orders his governor of Syria, Vitellius, to capture or kill Aretas, but he is reluctant to support Herod and abandons his campaign upon Tiberius' death in AD 37.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1369986487#Roman_Empire", "title": "30s", "revid": 1369986487, "section": "Events › 36 AD › Roman Empire"}}, {"year": 70, "year_label": "70 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": null, "text": "Malichus II, Roman client king of Nabatea", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1359120161#Deaths", "title": "AD 70", "revid": 1359120161, "section": "Deaths"}}, {"year": 71, "year_label": "71 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Reign of Rabel II, king of Nabataea. He makes Bostra, Syria, his second capital.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371185937#Asia", "title": "AD 71", "revid": 1371185937, "section": "Events › By place › Asia"}}, {"year": 106, "year_label": "106 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Trajan annexes the Nabataean Kingdom (with its capital Petra) as the Roman province of Arabia Petraea. The epoch of the calendar of the province of Arabia begins on March 22.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1359392828#Roman_Empire", "title": "AD 106", "revid": 1359392828, "section": "Events › By place › Roman Empire"}}, {"year": 106, "year_label": "106 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": null, "text": "Rabbel II Soter, ruler of the Nabataean Kingdom", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1359392828#Deaths", "title": "AD 106", "revid": 1359392828, "section": "Deaths"}}]}