Peraea
- A strip of land in Caria, along the coast opposite to Rhodes, and subject to the Rhodians, Liv. 32, 33; 35; 33, 18.—
- II A part of Palestine beyond the Jordan, the capital of which was Gadara, Plin. 5, 14, 15, § 70.
- a city in Aeolis, a colony of the Mityleneans, Liv. 37, 21, 4.
PERAEA (Περαία), the name of several districts lying beyond (πέραν) a river or on the other side of a sea.
1.The district of Palestine lying beyond the Jordan, and more particularly the country between the Jordan on the W., the city of Pella on the N., the city of Philadelphia and Arabia Petraea on the E., and the land of the Moabites on the S. [PALAESTINA p. 532.]
2.(ἡ τῶν Ῥοδίων περαία, Strab. 14, pp. 651, 652; Polyb. 17.2, 6, 8, 31.25; Liv. 32.33, 33.18; χώρα ἡ τῶν Ῥοδιῶν ἡ ἐν τῇ ἠπείρῳ, Scylax, p. 38), a portion of the S. coast of Caria, opposite to Rhodes, and subject to it. It commenced at Mt. Phoenix, and extended as far as the frontiers of Lycia. (Strab. l. c.) The peninsula containing Mt. Phoenix was called the Rhodian Chersonesus. (Plin. Nat. 31.2, 20; Diod. 5.60, 62.) For a description of this district, which is very beautiful and fertile, see Vol. I. pp. 519., b, 520, a.
3.(Περαία Τενεδίων, Strab. 13. p. 596), a small district on the coast of Mysia, opposite to Tenedus, and extending from the promontory Sigeium to Alexandria Troas.
PERAEA [CORINTHUS 685b.]
(Περαία, i. e. “the country on the opposite side”). A general name for any district belonging to or closely connected with a country, from the main part of which it was separated by a sea or river. (1) The part of Palestine east of the Jordan.
(2) Peraea Rhodiōrum, a district in the south of Caria, opposite to the island of Rhodes, and subject to the Rhodians, extending from Mount Phoenix on the west to the frontier of Lycia on the east.
(3) Peraea Tenediōrum, a strip of the western coast of Mysia, near Adramyttium, one of the colonies of the Mitylenaeans.