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Agra

Ἄγρα Ἀραβίας

Agra (Ἄγρα Ἀραβίας, Ptol. 6.7.5; Steph. B. sub voce Ἰάθρισσα, Ἔγρα), a small district of Arabia Felix, situated at the foot of Mount Hippus, on the eastern coast of the Red Sea, in lat. 29 1/2 N. (Akra). Iathrippa or Lathrippa seems to have been its principal town.

From William Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography. Text provided under a CC BY-SA license by Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Tufts University. Data accessed from https://github.com/PerseusDL/canonical-pdlrefwk/ on 17 October 2026.