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Ancient Nabataeon Bronze coin of Philopartis year 4 BC.
Nabataean Kingdom (Nabataean Aramaic: Nabāṭū), also named Nabatea (/ˌnæbəˈtiːə/) was a political state of the Nabataeans during classical antiquity. The Nabataean Kingdom controlled many of the trade routes of the region, amassing large wealth and drawing the envy of its neighbors. It stretched south along the Tihamah into the Hejaz, up as far north as Damascus, which it controlled for a short period (85–71 BC). Nabataea remained an independent political entity from the mid-3rd century BC until it was annexed in AD 106 by the Roman Empire, which renamed it to Arabia Petraea.