Talk:Arabia Felix

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The contents of the Eudaemon page were merged into Arabia Felix. For the contribution history and old versions of the redirected page, please see its history; for the discussion at that location, see its talk page. (6th November 2016)

This article is baseless!!! Historians called Yemen "Happy Arabia" not the eastern part or Riyadh.

I will cite sources soon.

You are completely right, and the article has been re-done. Gnossie (talk) 01:57, 18 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

It was not an exact term; I have changed the opening sentence to reflect actual usage, with reference. --Languagehat (talk) 17:02, 3 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

This article should be under "Arabia Felix," the universally used term, not the absurd "Happy Arabia" translation, which I have never seen (except in explaining the Latin phrase). --Languagehat (talk) 17:02, 3 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

The lede states that Arabia Felix literally means "Happy Arabia", but the next section says that "Happy Arabia" is a mistranslation. Which of the various meanings given (happy/fortunate/fertile/etc) is correct? Iapetus (talk) 12:38, 10 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Given the description of the area as having more rainfall and capable of supporting agriculture to a much greater extent than the other regions of Arabia, I would propose "fertile" to be a more appropriate translation. I'm going to change it to that for now. Russ3Z (talk) 16:57, 27 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]

I propose:

1. "

and/or

2. "

Eudaemon" should be merged to this article with a redirect created to point "Eudaemon Arabia" to this article, leaving "Eudaemon" to point to Eudaemon (disambiguation). — Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.236.136.184 (talk) 01:18, 28 August 2013 (UTC)  Done[reply

Edward Gibbon's book is the Decline and Fall, not the Rise and Fall, of the Roman Empire. Jim P. (talk) 02:16, 27 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]