Petra (disambiguation)
Petra is the Nabataean kingdom capital's archeological site, carved in the desert rock of (Trans)Jordan.
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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
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
Fictional characters
- Petra (comics), in Marvel Comics
- Petra Strorm, in John Wyndham's novel The Chrysalids
- Petra, in Broken Sword: The Sleeping Dragon
- Petra Arkanian, in a book series by Orson Scott Card
- Petra Andalee, the protagonist that appears in Blue Balliett's Chasing Vermeer and The Wright 3
- Queen Petra of Siphnos, a queen from Goddess of Yesterday
- Petra Ral, a character from the Attack On Titan anime series
- Petra, in the webcomic Okashina Okashi – Strange Candy
- Petra Johanna Lagerkvist, a character from the Arcana Heart video game series
- Petra Venj, the main story agent in the "House of Wolves" expansion for Bungie's Destiny
- Petra, a character from Minecraft: Story Mode.
- Petra, a character from Horizon Zero Dawn.
- Petra Solano, a character from TV series Jane The Virgin
- Petra, a character in Fire Emblem: Three Houses
- Petra Leyte, a character from the Re:Zero − Starting Life in Another World anime/light novel series
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 (Positron-Electron Tandem Ring Accelerator), a particle accelerator
- 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
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 (swan), an animal who become famous in 2006 for falling in love with a pedalo
- 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-
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