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- Oraea was the name of a sea port near the modern-day city of Ormara, Balochistan province of Pakistan, important in the Hellenistic era in Indian Ocean trade. It is mentioned briefly in the Periplus of the Erythraean Sea: "Beyond the Ommanitic region there is a country also of the , of another Kingdom, and the bay of Gedrosia [Casson: “”], from the middle of which a cape juts out into the bay. Here there is a river affording an entrance for ships, with a little market-town at the mouth, called Oraea and back from the place an in-land city, distant a seven days' journey from the sea, in which also is the King's court; it is called ... (probably Rhambacia) [Casson notes the name was inadvertently admitted in the manuscript]. This country yields much wheat, wine, rice and dates; but along the coast there is nothing but bdellium." Periplus, Chap. 38 (en)
- Oraea era il nome di un porto situato nei pressi dell'odierna città di , nella provincia pakistana del Belucistan. Si trattava di un importante centro in epoca ellenistica per quanto riguardava il commercio con l'oceano Indiano. Viene citata brevemente nel Periplus maris erythraei: (it)
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