Petra (disambiguation)

Petra ( ancient Greek πέτρα "rock" ) is:

Petra ( first name ), a female first name to name -makers see there
Petra (band), a Christian rock band from the United States
Petra ( musical), a Lebanese musical of the Brothers Rahbani ( Rahbani Brothers) from 1977, in which the singer Fairuz played the main role
Petra ( Swan), a black swan from Münster
Petra ( magazine ), a German magazine
Petra ( news agency ), a Jordanian News Agency
Petra ( storm ), plated on 17 December 2010 Germany with black ice, cold and snow
The mascot of the 1992 Summer Paralympics
Petra Electric, a manufacturer of electrical equipment
Petra (plastic), a sculpture by the artist Marcel Walldorf
Police 110: Petra, thriller (1982 )

In the ancient geography:

Petra (city ), capital of Nabatäerreiches in present-day Jordan
Petra Oxiana, Sogdian fortress (Curtius 7,11,1 )
Petra ( Lasika ), a fortress in the kingdom Lasika on the Black Sea
City of Maeder in Thrace and later medieval city and fortress, today Petrich in Bulgaria
Petra ( Macedonia), fort at Petra Pass in Macedonia, today a village in the Greek prefecture of Pieria
Petra ( Elis ), place in Elis (Pausanias 6,24,5 )
Petra ( Corinth ), place in Corinth
Petra ( Illyria ), Illyrian city, probably on the coast south of Durres in Albania
Petra Pertusa, a Roman way station in the Furlo Pass, see Intercisa (Umbria )
Petra ( Sicily), a town in Sicily, east of the present Corleone
Petra ( Hispania ), place in Hispania, maybe today Piedrahita in the province of Ávila in Spain
Nova Petra ( Gaetulia ), place in Gaetulia in North Africa
Petra (Mauritania), place in Mauretania, about 10 km northeast of the present-day Akbou in Algeria
Petra (Georgia), a town in Georgia, in today's Kobuleti municipality

Titular or archbishopric of the Roman Catholic Church:

Locations:

After first or last name of a person:

Petra Diego (1664-1680), see List of bishops of Marsi
Dionisio Petra (or Porta) ( 1683-1698 ), see List of the Bishops of Capri
Giulio De Petra (1841-1925), Italian archaeologist Classic
Jenny Petra (1934-2011), German pop singer
Simon of Petra (Simon von der Leyen ) ( 1491-1512 ), see list of abbots of the monastery Laach
Tuanku Ismail Petra (* 1949), Sultan of Kelantan, a state of Malaysia
Vincenzo Petra (1733-1734), see list of chamberlain of the Holy College of Cardinals
Yahya Petra (1917-1979), Sultan of Kelantan, Supreme ruler Sultan (1960-1979) of Malaysia
Yvon Petra (1916-1984), a French tennis player

PETRA is the abbreviation for:

Positron - Electron Tandem Ring Accelerator, a Teilchenbeschleunigerring, see Deutsches Elektronen -Synchrotron