Petra
Petra (ancient Greek πέτρα "rock") is:
- Petra (first name) , a female given name, for namesake see there
- Petra (band) , a Christian rock band from the USA
- Petra (Kapelle) , an indie rock band from Hamm
- Petra (Musical) , a Lebanese musical by the Rahbani Brothers from 1977, in which the singer Fairuz played the leading role
- Petra (swan) , a mourning swan from Münster
- Petra (magazine) , a German magazine
- Petra (news agency) , a Jordanian news agency
- Petra (storm depression) , covered Germany with slippery ice, cold and snow on December 17, 2010
- Petra (mascot) , the mascot of the 1992 Summer Paralympics
- Petra-Electric , a manufacturer of electrical appliances
- Petra (plastic) a sculpture by the artist Marcel Walldorf
- Polizeiruf 110: Petra , crime film (1982)
- Linux Mint 16 Petra , code name of version 16 of Linux Mint
in ancient geography :
- Petra (Jordan) , former capital of the Nabatean Empire, today ruins
- Petra Oxiana , Sogdian fortress (Curtius 7,11,1)
- Petra (Georgia) , an ancient city and fortress in Georgia, in what is now Kobuleti Municipality
- City of Maeder in Thrace, then a Roman city and fortress, today Petrich in Bulgaria
- Petra (Macedonia) , fortress on the Petra Pass in Macedonia, today a village in the Greek prefecture of Pieria
- Petra (Elis) , place near Elis (Pausanias 6,24,5)
- Petra (Corinth) , place near Corinth
- Petra (Illyria) , Illyrian city, probably on the coast south of Durrës in Albania
- Petra Pertusa , a Roman waystation at the Furlo Pass, see Intercisa (Umbria)
- Petra (Sicily) , city in Sicily, east of today's Corleone
- Petra (Hispania) , place in Hispania, perhaps today's Piedrahita in the province of Avila in Spain
- Nova Petra (Gaetulia) , place in Gaetulia in North Africa
- Petra (Mauritania) , place in Mauretania, about 10 km northeast of today's Akbou in Algeria
Titular bishopric or archbishopric of the Roman Catholic Church:
- Petra in Aegypto
- Titular diocese of Petra in Lazica
- Titular Archbishopric of Petra in Palestine
- Titular diocese Nova Petra
Places :
- Petra (Mallorca) , a city on the Spanish island of Mallorca
- Petra (Lesbos) , municipality on the Greek island of Lesbos
- Petra (Ziros) , village in the Greek region of Epirus
- a village in the Greek municipality of Vonitsa-Anaktorio
- Petra (Mehedinți) , a village in Romania
- Petra (Kentucky) , location in the United States
Petra is the family name of the following people:
- Diego Petra (1664–1680), Bishop of Marsi
- Dionisio Petra (or Porta ) (1683–1698), Bishop of Capri
- Giulio De Petra (1841-1925), Italian classical archaeologist
- Ismail Petra (* 1949), Sultan of Kelantan
- Jenny Petra (1934–2011), German pop singer
- Rita Mažukėlytė-Petra (* 1985), Lithuanian national soccer player
- Simon von Petra ( Simon von der Leyen ) (1491–1512), abbot of the Laach monastery
- Tengku Muhammad Faris Petra (* 1969), Sultan of Kelantan, see Muhammad V. (Kelantan)
- Vincenzo Petra (1733-1734), cardinal
- Yahya Petra (1917–1979), Sultan of Kelantan, Supreme Ruler Sultan (1960–1979) of Malaysia
- Yvon Petra (1916-1984), French tennis player
PETRA is the abbreviation for:
- Positron-electron tandem ring system, a particle accelerator ring, see German electron synchrotron
See also
Wiktionary: Petra - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations
