Peraia
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Peraia also written as Perea, has the meaning of "place opposite", usually a place lying across the sea from a city or an island, and may refer to any of several places, including:
in Greece:
in the Middle East:
in Asia Minor:
Names of similar provenance and meaning include:
in Greece:
- Peraia, PellaPeraia, PellaPeraía is a village in the Pella Prefecture of Macedonia, Greece on the bank of Lake Vegoritida. The original Turkish name of the village was Kostana....
, a village in the Pella Prefecture - Peraia, ThessalonikiPeraia, ThessalonikiPeraia is a suburb of Thessaloniki, located southeast of the city centre, along the coast of the Thermaic Gulf. GR-16 is located to the east and formerly passed through Peraia. Peraia is part of the municipality Thermaikos.-History:...
, a suburban city in the southcentral part of the Thessaloniki Prefecture
in the Middle East:
- Perea (Holy Land)Perea (Holy Land)Perea , a portion of the kingdom of Herod the Great occupying the eastern side of the Jordan River valley, from about one third the way down from the Sea of Galilee to about one third the way down the eastern shore of the Dead Sea; it did not extend too far inland...
, a region of Ancient Israel east of the Jordan river
in Asia Minor:
- Peræa Rhodiorum, mainland possessions of RhodesRhodesRhodes is an island in Greece, located in the eastern Aegean Sea. It is the largest of the Dodecanese islands in terms of both land area and population, with a population of 117,007, and also the island group's historical capital. Administratively the island forms a separate municipality within...
between 167 BE until the 2nd century AD in part of historical CariaCariaCaria was a region of western Anatolia extending along the coast from mid-Ionia south to Lycia and east to Phrygia. The Ionian and Dorian Greeks colonized the west of it and joined the Carian population in forming Greek-dominated states there...
, roughly across the region extending from the modern city of MuğlaMuglaMuğla is a city in south-western Turkey. It is the center of the district the same name, as well as of Muğla Province, which stretches along Turkey´s Aegean coast. Muğla center is situated inland at an altitude of 660 m and lies at a distance of about from the nearest seacoast in the Gulf of...
(ancient Mobolla) in the north and KaunosKaunosKaunos was a city of ancient Caria and in Anatolia, a few km west of the modern town of Dalyan, Muğla Province, Turkey....
bordering LyciaLyciaLycia Lycian: Trm̃mis; ) was a region in Anatolia in what are now the provinces of Antalya and Muğla on the southern coast of Turkey. It was a federation of ancient cities in the region and later a province of the Roman Empire...
in the south, near the present-day DalyanDalyanDalyan is a town in Muğla Province located between the well-known districts of Marmaris and Fethiye on the south-west coast of Turkey. The town is an independent municipality, within the administrative district of Ortaca....
, Turkey
Names of similar provenance and meaning include:
- PiraeusPiraeusPiraeus is a city in the region of Attica, Greece. Piraeus is located within the Athens Urban Area, 12 km southwest from its city center , and lies along the east coast of the Saronic Gulf....
, the port of Athens, Greece - PeraBeyogluBeyoğlu is a district located on the European side of İstanbul, Turkey, separated from the old city by the Golden Horn...
, in Istanbul, Turkey - PerateiaPerateiaPerateia was the overseas territory of the Empire of Trebizond, comprising the Crimean cities of Cherson, Kerch and their hinterlands. The territory was probably administered during Byzantine rule from Trebizond before the Comneni established a separate empire a few weeks before the Crusader sack...
, a medieval Byzantine province in the Crimea