Arabia
Archimandrite Nikifor’s Biblical Encyclopedia
(a barren, desolate land) (1 Kings 10:15), called by the natives the Arabian Peninsula, lies in western Asia, south and southwest of Judea. Its extent from north to south is 1,500 English miles, and from east to west 1,200 English miles; it borders on the north with Syria, on the east with the river Euphrates and the Persian Gulf, on the south with the Indian Ocean, and on the west with the Red Sea, Palestine, and part of Syria. It has, since ancient times, from the days of the Alexandrian geographer Ptolemy, been divided into three parts: