Arra

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]