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Arabia Petraea is annexed as a Roman province under Trajan

In 106 the Nabataean kingdom was annexed as Arabia Petraea. The dated province is a Red Sea–Levant administrative instrument, not Dacia and not the 116 Parthian overstretch. In the causal graph this event strengthens the driver Industrial-Policy Activism.

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In 106 the Nabataean kingdom was annexed as Arabia Petraea. The dated province is a Red Sea–Levant administrative instrument, not Dacia and not the 116 Parthian overstretch. Trajan’s documented role is: He ordered annexation of the Nabataean kingdom. A. Cornelius Palma campaigned; a Via Nova followed; Trajan was in Dacia’s file that year. Later editors, printers, and excavators remain named where they appear. Trajan's documented role is: He ordered annexation of the Nabataean kingdom.

Context

Annexation is not unique road-engineering by the emperor’s hand. Local Nabataean elites remain in the record. Named others on the file: A. Cornelius Palma, unnamed soldiers, and Nabataean office-holders share the annexation. The public setting is the file around 0106-03-22. The instrument stays Arabia Petraea is annexed as a Roman province under Trajan. The setting of Arabia Petraea is annexed as a Roman province under Trajan is the public file around 0106-03-22. Driver industrial-policy-activism is attached because the significance names a mechanism from this act, not because a standing list needed coverage.

That reading is an impact-path choice, not a property stored on the Fact itself.

Why it matters

Complex on later milestone and encyclopedia carriers. Welfare reading improving. The attached mechanism is A dated provincial annexation opened a Red Sea–Syria road and tax heading under imperial administration. Lag to any modern indicator is not treated as zero. This path is attached because the mechanism is named from this act, not because a driver list needed coverage. The welfare reading on this path is improving.

Shared responsibility is part of Arabia Petraea is annexed as a Roman province under Trajan. Naming Trajan does not delete co-authors, institutions, or later transmitters. The lag from 0106-03-22 to any measured indicator is not treated as zero. Alternative explanations — weather, other armies, later statutes, or independent cultural change — remain live where the sources do not close them.

Who was responsible

Contribution type and responsibility level for each recorded actor — not sole-author shorthand.

  • Trajan

    Person

    Direct responsibility

    responsibility level 0.4 · verified

    He ordered annexation of the Nabataean kingdom. A. Cornelius Palma campaigned; a Via Nova followed; Trajan was in Dacia’s file that year.

What changed

Fact → Driver → Indicator. Relationship strength orders the paths; it is not the observed indicator movement.

    1. FactArabia Petraea is annexed as a Roman province under Trajan
    2. strengthensDriverIndustrial-Policy Activism

    impact weight 0.35 · Effect from 22 March 106 · verified

    A dated provincial annexation opened a Red Sea–Syria road and tax heading under imperial administration.

Evidence

The sources behind this fact and its verification state.

Verified2 sources on file
  1. 1.Livius — Arabia PetraeaLivius.org · High credibility · verified
  2. 2.Britannica — TrajanEncyclopaedia Britannica · High credibility · verified
What the sources establish

Britannica and Livius independently date the 106 Arabian province. Official: Britannica — Trajan, Arabia Petraea (https://www.britannica.com/biography/Trajan (opens in a new tab); Encyclopaedia Britannica). Independent: Livius — Arabia Petraea (https://www.livius.org/articles/place/arabia-petraea/ (opens in a new tab); Livius.org). The two URLs are different pages. Where the carrier is a later edition or a received narrative, that limit is stated rather than upgraded to an autograph. Official carrier: Britannica — Trajan, Arabia Petraea (https://www.britannica.com/biography/Trajan (opens in a new tab); Encyclopaedia Britannica). Independent carrier: Livius — Arabia Petraea (https://www.livius.org/articles/place/arabia-petraea/ (opens in a new tab); Livius.org).

Established: 106 annexation of Nabataea as Arabia Petraea. Not established: a unique trade-volume series for that year. Established: a sourced public record of Arabia Petraea is annexed as a Roman province under Trajan under 0106-03-22.

If a number is not in the two records named above, it is not supplied here.

Later competitions, monuments, translations, UNESCO listings, museums, and adaptations are not converted into extra lifetime acts.

Confidence is stated on the impact path, not hidden in adjectives. Mixed effects of Arabia Petraea is annexed as a Roman province under Trajan are separate paths.

Causal path

How this event connects to drivers and indicators in the graph.

  1. ActorTrajan
  2. contributed toFactArabia Petraea is annexed as a Roman province under Trajan
  3. strengthensDriverIndustrial-Policy Activism

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Factrail. (2026). Arabia Petraea is annexed as a Roman province under Trajan. Factrail. https://factrail.ai/facts/trj-arabia-petraea-106

https://factrail.ai/facts/trj-arabia-petraea-106

Accessed 16 October 2026.

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