Petra (disambiguation)

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, MehedinÅ£i 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-