Kingdom of Hatra
The Kingdom of Hatra (Arabic: مملكة الحضر, romanized: Mamlakat al-Ḥażr), also called Kingdom of Arabaya and Araba, was a 2nd-century Arab kingdom centered on the city of Hatra and located between the Roman and the Parthian empires, mostly under Parthian suzerainty, in modern-day northern Iraq. == Name == The name of "Hatra" appears various times in the Aramaic Hatrene inscriptions as Hatran Aramaic: 𐣧𐣨𐣣𐣠, romanized: ḥṭrʾ, vocalized as: Ḥaṭrā), probably meaning "enclosure, hedge, fence".