Arabia
a peninsula in SW Asia, including Saudi Arabia, Yemen Arab Republic, People's Democratic Republic of Yemen, Oman, the United Arab Emirates, Qatar, and Kuwait: divided in ancient times into Arabia Deserta, Arabia Petraea, and Arabia Felix. About 1,000,000 sq. mi. (2,600,000 sq. km).
- Also called Arabian Peninsula.
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Neandertals inhabited parts of the Middle East by around 70,000 years ago and could have reached a well-watered Arabia by 55,000 years ago.
2021 research reinforced that mating across groups drove human evolution | Bruce Bower | December 13, 2021 | Science NewsThe smuggling has its roots in the clumsiness of rulers who for hundreds of years have taken the thousand-mile Zagros range as the boundary between Arabia and Persia but ignored how Kurds live on both sides.
Some of those people may have reached Arabia before eventually journeying to southwest Asia, Groucutt suggests.
Stone Age humans or their relatives occasionally trekked through a green Arabia | Bruce Bower | September 1, 2021 | Science NewsArabia, known today for its desert landscape, served as a “green turnstile” for migrating Stone Age members of the human genus starting around 400,000 years ago, a new study finds.
Stone Age humans or their relatives occasionally trekked through a green Arabia | Bruce Bower | September 1, 2021 | Science NewsThose finds are another sign of human migrations into Arabia at a time when the corresponding KAM 4 lake bed shows that wet conditions reigned.
Stone Age humans or their relatives occasionally trekked through a green Arabia | Bruce Bower | September 1, 2021 | Science News
The most notorious states are Saudi Arabia and Pakistan, where death is an acceptable legal remedy.
Saudi Arabia, on the other hand, primarily produces petroleum.
On top of oil, the United States produces significantly more natural gas than Saudi Arabia.
Imagine if hackers from Saudi Arabia said that any TV station in America broadcasting feminists and gays would be attacked?
The Sony Hack and America’s Craven Capitulation To Terror | David Keyes | December 19, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTQatar is just a little spit of land that looks like a polyp on edge of Saudi Arabia.
Arabia is the most dry country in the world, and one in which water is the most scarce.
Buffon's Natural History. Volume VIII (of 10) | Georges Louis Leclerc de BuffonFor he appears to have subdued first Ethiopia and Troglodytica,705 and afterwards to have passed over into Arabia.
The little zebu of Arabia is not more than a tenth part the size of the bull-elephant.
Buffon's Natural History. Volume IX (of 10) | Georges Louis Leclerc de BuffonFrom Arabia we got the words harem and magazine, and from Turkey the name coffee, though this is really an Arabian word.
Stories That Words Tell Us | Elizabeth O'NeillIn remote antiquity the bulk of gold was brought by the Phenicians from Arabia, which had twenty-two gold mines.
British Dictionary definitions for Arabia
/ (əˈreɪbɪə) /
a great peninsula of SW Asia, between the Red Sea and the Persian Gulf: consists chiefly of a desert plateau, with mountains rising over 3000 m (10 000 ft) in the west and scattered oases; includes the present-day countries of Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Oman, Bahrain, Qatar, Kuwait, and the United Arab Emirates. Area: about 2 600 000 sq km (1 000 000 sq miles)
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Cultural definitions for Arabia
Peninsula in southwest Asia, bordered on the north by Jordan and Iraq, on the east by the Persian Gulf and the Gulf of Oman, on the south by the Gulf of Aden, and on the west by the Red Sea. This historical region in the Middle East consists of Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, and Yemen.
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