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Petra is the Nabataean kingdom capital's archeological site, carved in the desert rock of (Trans)Jordan.

Contents

• Places and jurisdictions
• Mediterranean
• Elsewhere
• People
• Arts and entertainment
• Business
• Science
• Other uses
• See also

Petra, PETRA or Petria may also refer to :

Places and jurisdictions

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 (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-

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