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King of Maʿīn (South Arabia), c. 5th century BCE. His reign marked the beginning of the kingdom’s golden age with major construction projects and intense trade relations with Egypt, the Levant and Assyria.
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Around the 3rd-2nd centuries BCE, the name Abīyathaʿ / Abīyathaʿ Ghaylān recurs repeatedly in the region of Najrān, Qaryat al-Faw, and in Eastern Arabia. These mentions may correspond to one or more rulers who had authority over eastern and/or south-western Arabia.
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A Christian, Ethiopian-born king of Ḥimyar who participated in the Aksumite invasion of South Arabia in 525 and subsequently seized the Himyarite throne, ruling independently from Aksum. After suppressing a revolt within South Arabia, he set about re-establishing the Himyarite Empire, which during his reign extended over most of the Arabian Peninsula.
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The name of the Roman prefect of Egypt from 27 to 25 BCE. In an Arabian context, Aelius Gallus is famous as the leader of the expedition to South Arabia he was ordered to undertake by the emperor Augustus. The motives behind this expedition are usually considered to be both economic and political, but are still debated.
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Agatharchides of Cnidus [Arabia in ...]
Agatharchides (before 200 BCE? - after 145 BCE) of Cnidus is the author of 'On the Erythrean Sea', a geographic and ethnographic description of the countries around the Indian Ocean. Book V of these volumes contains one of the most detailed ancient descriptions of the Red Sea coast of the Arabian Peninsula.
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Agraeans (Greek Ἀγραῖοι, Latin Agraei), the name assigned by Eratosthenes (transmitted by Strabo Geog. XVI, 4, 2), Pliny (HN VI, 154; 159; 161), Dionysius Periegetes (v. 956, from Eratosthenes or Strabo), Ptolemy (Geog. V, 19, 2) and Stephanus (s.u. Ἀγραῖοι, according to Strabo) to one or several tribes (ethnos / gens) in Arabia.