Eclipse-Maven Complex Project Dependency (ApacheJena) - java

I'm fairly new to the Eclipse and Maven2 worlds. I'm struggling to comprehend how to add a Maven project dependency on Apache Jena in a simple way. Specifically, I'd like to add a dependency such as
<dependency>
<groupId>org.apache.jena</groupId>
<artifactId>jena</artifactId>
<version>${jena.version}</version>
</dependency>
And this would automatically pull in the modules(eg. jena-arq, jena-core, etc). However, adding this dependency results in a Missing artifact org.apache.jena:jena:jar:2.11.1 error. If I add <type>pom</type> to the dependency the error is gone but I do not get the jars in my project.
In any event, as I understand it, POM is more suited to project <--modules dependencies and what I'm really looking for is project --> lib archive dependencies.
How do I establish such a relationship? I considered simply replicating the dependency for each module in Jena since it's using a property anyway. However, it is possible, and Jena is a prime example, that not all modules in a project share the same version. For example jena-core is on 2.11.1 where jena-tdb is on 1.0.1 however jena-2.11.1 encompasses jena-tdb.
Thanks

See http://jena.apache.org/download/maven.html for details.
In brief:
<dependency>
<groupId>org.apache.jena</groupId>
<artifactId>apache-jena-libs</artifactId>
<type>pom</type>
<version>2.11.1</version> <!-- Set version -->
</dependency>
Note that it is type pom.

there is not a easy way do this.
you must define every dependency jar with special version.

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