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]