Emperor Trajan formally annexes the satellite Nabataean…

Emperor Trajan formally annexes the satellite Nabataean kingdom in 106, organizing its territory within the new Roman province of Arabia that includes most of the East Bank of the Jordan River.

Petra serves for a time as the provincial capital.

The Nabataeans continue to prosper under direct Roman rule, and their culture, now thoroughly Hellenized, flourishes in the second and third centuries.

Citizens of the province share a legal system and identity in common with Roman subjects throughout the empire.

Roman ruins seen in present-day Jordan attest to the civic vitality of the region, whose cities are linked to commercial centers throughout the empire by the Roman road system and whose security is guaranteed by the Roman army.