BADEI-REGIA (Βαδεὼ βασίλειον, Ptol. 6.7.6), the metropolis of the Cassaniti, a people on the west coast of Arabia, in the modern district of Hedjaz, written Vadei by Pliny, and described as a large town (6.28. s. 32). Identified with Beyadhye, near Jidda, by Forster ( Geog. of Arab. vol. ii. pp. 142, 143). The south promontory of the Gulf of Jidda is also called Ras-Bad.
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