Peraia

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, Turkey

Names 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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