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Nabataean Kingdom

ancient Arab Kingdom (3rd century BC - 106 AD)

8 dated entries naming Nabataean Kingdom, drawn from 7 separate years between 84 BCE and 106 CE. Nothing here is written by us: each line is the sentence a Wikipedia year article used, and the link beside it opens the exact revision.

Also written as Nabataea, Nabatea, Nabatean Kingdom in the source articles; Wikipedia redirects those to the same subject, so their entries are on this page.

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1st century BC

  • 84 BCEBattle of Cana: The Arab Nabataean Kingdom decisively defeats the Greek Seleucid Empire, slaying King Antiochus XII Dionysus, at modern-day Umm Qais in Jordan.source
  • 60 BCEAretas III Philhellen, king of Nabatea (approximate date)source
  • 30 BCEAugust 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.source

1st century

  • 36Herod 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.source
  • 70Malichus II, Roman client king of Nabateasource
  • 71Reign of Rabel II, king of Nabataea. He makes Bostra, Syria, his second capital.source

2nd century

  • 106Trajan 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.source
  • 106Rabbel II Soter, ruler of the Nabataean Kingdomsource

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