The influence of the Kingdom of Dedan expanded to the north, south and center of the Arabian Peninsula. The Romanian writer Belenios (79 AD) described the Gulf of Aqaba in the Red Sea as the Lehyan Gulf. That name remained until the second century AD. Lehyans writings spread on the trade routes and some urban centers such as Tayma, where an obelisk on which the name King of Lehyanite was inscribed and Wadi Ram and Adisah in South Jordan where a memorial found in campus of Widd Temple that provided to Zu Ghibah. Lehyan graves were also found and a collection of writings describing about Lehyan families who lived there. German scientist Werner Kaskel believes that the influence of Lehyanians reached Al-Kharj (80 km. south of Riyadh) linking the name of the city and the name of idol Kharj that worshipped in Al-Ula.

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