Medava
Μήδαυα
Medava (Μήδαυα), a town of Arabia Petraea, placed by Ptolemy in long. 68° 30‘, lat. 30° 45‘ doubtless identical with Medeba or Madeba [MADEBA], the letters αυ and αβ being identical in sound, and, consequently, used interchangeably, especially in proper names. (Ptol. 5.17.6.)
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.