- Peraia
:"Perea redirects here. For the surname see
Perea (surname) ".Peraia (Greek: Περαία, Latin: Peræa), also written as Perea, has the meaning of "place across the passage", usually a place lying across the sea from a city or an island, and may refer to any of several places, including:
;in Greece:
*Peraia, Pella , a village in the Pella Prefecture
*Peraia, Thessaloniki , a suburban city in the southcentral part of the Thessaloniki Prefecture;in the Middle East:
*Perea (Holy Land) , a region of Ancient Israel east of the Jordan river;in Asia Minor:
*Peræa Rhodiorum, later "Kaunos" or "Caunus", an ancient city of Caria, now located near Dalyan, Muğla Province, TurkeyNames of similar provenance and meaning include:
*Piraeus , the port of Athens, Greece
*Pera, in Istanbul, Turkey
*Perateia , a medieval Byzantine province in the Crimea
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