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 :

Places and jurisdictions

Mediterranean

Greece

  • Petra (Corinthia), a town of ancient Corinthia
  • Petra (Elis), a town of ancient Elis
  • Petra, Boeotia, a village and community of the Aliartos municipality
  • Petra, Lesbos, a village and former municipality on the island of Lesbos
  • Petra, Pieria, a former municipality in Pieria regional unit
  • Petra, Preveza, 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, a former intercommunal village in Northern Cyprus
  • Petra, Majorca, a town in Balearic Spain
  • Petralia Sottana known as Petra in Classical times.

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

  • Petra (given name)

Arts and entertainment

  • Petra (band), 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), Jordanian news agency
  • Petra Airlines, former airline based in Amman, Jordan
  • Petra Bank, bankrupt Jordanian bank
  • Petra Diamonds, diamond mining company
  • SS Petra, a West German merchant ship

Science

  • PETRA (Positron-Electron Tandem Ring Accelerator), a particle accelerator
  • The proper name of the star WASP-80

Other uses

  • Petra (dog), a dog on the British children's TV programme Blue Peter
  • Petra High School, an independent school in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe
  • Petra Christian University, an Indonesian campus in Surabaya, East Java
  • Petra (swan), an animal who become famous in 2006 for falling in love with a pedalo
  • Petra, the official mascot of the 1992 Summer Paralympics.
  • Petria (brachiopod), a brachiopod genus
  • 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-