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Eusebius of Cesarea mentioned that a unit of the Roman army was stationed on the edge of the desert at Mefaat in the 4th century AD. (Onomasticon 128, 21).
Also the Notitia Dignitatum, a state handbook or auxiliary book of the Roman Empire for the internal use of Roman authorities from the 5th centrury AD, stated that auxiliary cavalry troops of the Roman army were stationed in the camp of Mefaa under the command of the Dux Arabiae.