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Nabataean [script and language]
The Nabataean script and language are a local variety of Aramaic which developed in the Near East after the conquest of the Achaemenid Empire by Alexander the Great in 330. This entry assesses the distribution of Nabataean inscriptions in the Arabian Peninsula and touches upon their characteristics, one of which is the relatively large number of Arabic loanwords they contain.
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Nabataeans [in Northwest Arabia]
Overview of Nabataean presence in Northwest Arabia with a list of the number of sites with a Nabataean occupation.
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The so-called Nabataeo-Arabic script developed in northwest Arabia between the late 3rd and the mid-5th centuries CE. It is a precursor of Arabic.
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Oasis, settlement and pre-Islamic tribe of Southwest Arabia (today in Saudi Arabia). It was a major site along the caravan roads linking South Arabia to the Gulf and the Mediterranean.
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Nakraḥ is an Ancient South Arabian god. He was one of the major deities of the Minaean pantheon. He had sanctuaries in the cities of Qarnā, capital of Maʿīn, Yathill, and its territory. He was also worshipped abroad, like in the Minaean colony at Dadān (northern Arabia).
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Ancient fortified city of the kingdom of Ḥaḍramawt, located in the upper reaches of the Wādī Mayfaʿa, in modern Yemen. Despite the absence of archaeological excavations, the remains of a city wall and several buildings have been identified. The city was occupied at the latest in the 5th-4th cent; BCE, until at least the 4th cent. CE.
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In the 8th-6th centuries BCE, Nashshān (Sab. Ns²n) was an important tribe and city-state in the Jawf valley (modern Kharibat al-Sawdāʾ). The tribe of Nashshān lost this political independence in the course of the 4th century BCE by successively passing under the authority of the kingdoms of Maʿīn and then of Sabaʾ.