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(Peraia, 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.
Peraea Rhodiorum, 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.
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Peraea (Peraia), the name of several districts lying beyond (peran) a river or
on the other side of a sea. (He ton Hpodion peraia, xxxiii. 18; chora he ton Hpodion
he en te epeirho, 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. xxxi. 2, 20; Diod. v. 60, 62.) For
a description of this district, which is very beautiful and fertile, see Vol.
I. pp. 519., b, 520, a.
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