Occurrence of Attributes in Original Text
The text related to the cultural heritage 'Petra' has mentioned 'Fortress' in the following places:
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Enclosed by towering rocks and watered by a perennial stream, Petra not only possessed the advantages of a fortress, but controlled the main commercial routes which passed through it to Gaza in the west, to Bosra and Damascus in the north, to Aqaba and Leuce Come on the Red Sea, and across the desert to the Persian Gulf. | WIKI |
94xe2x80x9397) which describes the expeditions which Antigonus sent against the Nabataeans in 312 BCE, was understood by some researchers xe2x80x93 and not so by others xe2x80x93 to throw some light upon the history of Petra, but the "petra" (Greek for rock) referred to as a natural fortress and place of refuge cannot be a proper name, and the description implies that there was no town in existence there at the time. | WIKI |