Arra
Arra
1.
(Marrah, Máarra), a town of Chalcidice, in Syria, 20 M.P. S. of Chalcis (It. Ant. p. 194). In Abulfeda (Tab. Syr. pp. 21, 111), it appears as a considerable place, under the name of Maarat.
2.
(Ἄρρη κώμη, Ptol. 6.7.30), an inland town of Arabia Felix, the same apparently which Pliny calls Areni (6.28. s. 32). [P.S]
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.