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Common Expressions: HAPPY ARABIA

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Happy ArabiaHappy Arabia (sometimes Felix Arabia) was the name previously used by geographers for the eastern edge of the Arabian Peninsula, from modern-day Kuwait to about Muscat, and extending westwards to approximately Riyadh. (references)

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Specialty Expressions: HAPPY ARABIA

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Happy ArabiaLiteratureA mistranslation of the Latin Arabia felix, which means simply on the right hand - i.e. to the right hand of Al-Shan (Syria). It was Ptolemy who was the author of the threefold division Arabia Petraea, miscalled "Stony Arabia," but really so called from its chief city Petra; Arabia Felix (or Yemen), the south-west coast; and as for Arabia deserta (meaning the interior) probably he referred to Nedjaz. Source: Brewer's Dictionary.

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