Arabia Deserta

Arabia Deserta (Latin meaning "Abandoned/Deserted Arabia"), also known as Arabia Magna ("Great Arabia"), signified the desert interior of the Arabian peninsula. In ancient times, this land was populated by nomadic Bedouin tribes who frequently invaded richer lands, such as Mesopotamia and Arabia Felix.

A French "Map of the Three Arabias excerpted partly from the Arab of Nubia, partly from several other authors".
By Nicolas Sanson, 1654. Deserta is the small green one in the north. The big yellow one is "Yemen".

Arabia Deserta was one of three regions into which the Romans divided the Arabian peninsula: Arabia Deserta (or Arabia Magna), Arabia Felix, and Arabia Petraea. As a name for the region, it remained popular into the 19th and 20th centuries, and was used in Charles M. Doughty's Travels in Arabia Deserta (1888).[1]

Bibliography
  • G.W. Bowersock, "The three Arabias in Ptolemy's geography" and "Arabs and Saracens in the Historia Augusta" in G.W. Bowersock, Studies on the Eastern Roman Empire, Goldbach, 1994.
  • F. Millar, The Roman Near East, London, 1994, pp. 514 ff.
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gollark: ++magic py await bot.user.set_nickname("LyricLy®")
gollark: NO EVIDENCE of actual implementation (except maybe the parser)NO COHERENT SPEC describing how any if it actually worksLANGUAGES WERE NOT MEANT TO HAVE TYPES BE TRAITS OR WHATEVERWanted to use macros anyway for a laugh? We had a tool for that. It was called Lisp."Hello I would like impl<u8(a)> T(a) apples please" - statements made by the utterly Deranged.And after all the computers and compiler tooling we gave them!
gollark: And yet.
gollark: Well, the lesson is more that LyricLy's language ideas are bad and impossible.

References
  1. "Carte des trois Arabies : tirée en partie de l'Arabe de Nubie, en partie de divers autres auteurs" [Map of the Three Arabias: Excerpted Partly from the Arab of Nubia, Partly from Several Other Authors]. World Data Library (in French). 1654.

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