A hafir, or haffir, is an artificially constructed water catchment basin with a circular earthen wall and diameters of between 70-250 m and heights of...

Auja al-Hafir (Arabic: عوجة الحفير, also Auja) was an ancient road junction close to water wells in the western Negev and eastern Sinai. It was the traditional...

The East Aleppo offensive (2017), also referred to as the Dayr Hafir offensive, was an operation launched by the Syrian Army to prevent Turkish-backed...

Dayr Hafir (Arabic: دَيْر حَافِر / ALA-LC: Dayr Ḥāfir) is a Syrian city in the Aleppo Governorate, 50 kilometres (31 miles) east of Aleppo on the Aleppo-Raqqa...

The Raid on the Beersheba to Hafir el Auja railway took place on 23 May 1917 after the Second Battle of Gaza and before the Battle of Beersheba during...

included two sub-districts and a municipality: a-Hafir (Ottoman Turkish: ناحيه حفير; Turkish: Hafır nahiyesı; Arabic: ناحية عوجة الحفير), created in 1908...

Dayr Hafir District (Arabic: منطقة دير حافر, romanized: manṭiqat Dayr Ḥāfir) is a district of Aleppo Governorate in northern Syria. Administrative centre...

×     sararan sára-rann. sāra-rann. ×     uara Vara Vara ×     hafir hefir (hann) hafiʀ (hann) ×     fult fullt fullt ¶     f(e)kit fengit. fængit. ×  ...

Hafir, a type of reservoir, during the Meroitic period. 800 ancient and modern hafirs have been registered in the Meroitic town of Butana. The Hafirs...

which tells of how Ulf of Borresta three times took danegeld: in ulfr hafiʀ o| |onklati ' þru kialt| |takat þit uas fursta þis tusti ka-t ' þ(a) ----...

Located on the Dayr Hafir Plain north of Lake Jabbul, some 30 km (19 mi) east of the city of Aleppo and 15 km (9.3 mi) west of Dayr Hafir, Kuweires Sharqi...

developed a form of reservoir, known as a hafir, during the Meroitic period. Eight hundred ancient and modern hafirs have been registered in the Meroitic town...

sub-districts) Aleppo Jabal Sem‘ān‎ Ayn al-Arab Atarib Afrin Al-Bab Dayr Ḥafir As-Safira Azaz Jarabulus Manbij Mount Simeon District (7 sub-districts)*...

official census): Aleppo Jabal Sem‘ān‎ Ayn al-Arab Atarib Afrin Al-Bab Dayr Ḥafir As-Safira Azaz Jarabulus Manbij The governorate is divided into ten districts...

northeast of Kuweires Sharqi village, between As-Safira in the West and Dayr Hafir in the East. The base was constructed with Polish support in the late 1960s...

Dayr Hafir Subdistrict Dayr Hafir Humaymah Kabirah al-Jabbul Umm el-Marra Kuweires Sharqi Subdistrict Kuweires Sharqi Mazburah al-Raa'i Rasm al-Abed Rasm...

brides on their wedding night (part of what was then known as the khafir or hafir system). In the Hawaiian Islands, the privilege for chiefs was often observed...

ensuring the triumph of the victorious Shukira in the 17th century. The hafir is an important source of water. Batahin Africa portal Stephenson, David;...

south): Bir 'Asluj, al Mushrife and 'Auja. 'Auja, also known as 'Auja al-Hafir, was an administrative center built by the Ottoman Empire on the Egypt–Palestine...

depicted as a three-headed god on the outside walls. The Great Reservoir is a hafir to retain as much as possible of the rainfall of the short, wet season....

the 4th century BC, which relied on animal power instead of human energy.Hafirs were developed as a type of reservoir in Kush to store and contain water...

31.09722; 34.65250 Asluj PS Beersheba 26 December 1948 46 Yoav Auja al-Hafir Beersheba 27 December 1948 46 Yoav 30°52′56″N 34°23′38″E / 30.88222°N...

ilWard, ilHawš ʿAkawbar, Tawwane, Hile Hafīr ilFawqa, Badda Qtayfe Sēdnāya Maʿarrit Sēdnāya Rankūs Talfita Halbūn Hafīr itTahta itTall Mnin Drayj No interdentals...

[galt] Þorketill. Þá galt Knútr. The rendering of Old East Norse: En Ulfʀ hafiʀ a Ænglandi þry giald takit. Þet was fyrsta þet's Tosti ga[l]t. Þa [galt]...

Kitchener won victories at the Battle of Ferkeh in June 1896 and the Battle of Hafir in September 1896, earning him national fame in the United Kingdom and promotion...

honours are as follows: Pre-World War I: Guadeloupe 1759, Martinique 1794, Hafir, South Africa 1878-79, Egypt 1882, Kirbekan, Nile 1884–85, South Africa...

architecture Nubian pyramids Nubian vault Pyramids of Meroë Sedeinga pyramids Technology Bow and arrow Gold mining Hafir Levallois technique Category...

Wall-drawing Graffiti of Prince Pückler-Muskau The Great Reservoir is a Hafir to retain as much as possible of the rainfall of the short, wet season....

2 weeks and 5 days) The Syrian Army captures 250 villages, the city of Dayr Hafir and 2 towns. The FSA captures 6-7 villages and SDF captures 14 villages...

reducing the tow on the requirement of human energy. Reservoirs in the form of Hafirs were developed in Kush to store water and boost irrigation. Bloomeries and...