Petra (disambiguation)

Petra is the Nabataean kingdom capital's archeological site, carved in the desert rock of (Trans)Jordan.

Petra, PETRA or Petria may also refer to :

Mediterranean
Greece
 * Petra (Corinthia), a town of ancient Corinthia
 * Petra (Elis), a town of ancient Elis
 * Petra, Boeotia, a village and community of the Aliartos municipality
 * Petra, Lesbos, a village and former municipality on the island of Lesbos
 * Petra, Pieria, a former municipality in Pieria regional unit
 * Petra, Preveza, a village in Preveza regional unit

Other
 * Petra (Illyria), a town of ancient Illyricum, now in Albania
 * Petra (Lycaonia), a town of ancient Lycaonia, now in Turkey
 * Petra in Aegypto, a Hellenistic city and former bishopric in Aegyptus Primus, now Hagar-En-Nauatiyeh (Egypt) and a Latin Catholic titular see
 * Petra, Cyprus, a former intercommunal village in Northern Cyprus
 * Petra, Majorca, a town in Balearic Spain

Elsewhere
Black Sea
 * Petra, Lazica, alias Petra in Lazica, a Roman fortress, settlement and former bishopric in Colchis, modern Georgia, now a Latin Catholic titular see
 * Petra, a village in Bâcleș Commune, Mehedinţi County, Romania

Other
 * Petra, Kentucky, an unincorporated community in the US

People

 * Petra (given name)

Arts and entertainment

 * Petra (band), a Christian rock band
 * Petra (album), their debut album
 * Petra (film), a 2018 Spanish film
 * Petra (sculpture), a 2010 sculpture by Marcel Walldorf
 * Petra (TV series), a 2020 Italian TV crime series

Business

 * Petra (agency), Jordanian news agency
 * Petra Airlines, former airline based in Amman, Jordan
 * Petra Bank, bankrupt Jordanian bank
 * Petra Diamonds, diamond mining company
 * SS Petra, a West German merchant ship

Science

 * PETRA (Positron-Electron Tandem Ring Accelerator), a particle accelerator

Other uses

 * Petra (dog), a dog on the British children's TV programme Blue Peter
 * Petra High School, an independent school in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe
 * Petra (swan), an animal who become famous in 2006 for falling in love with a pedalo
 * Petria (brachiopod), a brachiopod genus
 * Petra, database system used by the UK Citizens Advice Bureau from 2011