quantities of solar energy. English desert and its Romance cognates (including Italian and Portuguese deserto, French désert and Spanish desierto) all come...

Judaean Desert or Judean Desert (Arabic: برية الخليل, romanized: Bariyat al-Khalil, Hebrew: מִדְבַּר יְהוּדָה, romanized: Midbar Yehuda) is a desert in the...

Saint-Guilhem-le-Désert Abbey or Gellone Abbey is a Benedictine abbey in Saint-Guilhem-le-Désert, Hérault in France. It was founded in 804 by an Aquitanian...

Kitab) 2010 : Qui a tué le caniche (Marsam) 2007 : Le jardinier du Désert, roman (Éditions Afrique Orient) 2007 : L'œuf de Noé, conte pour enfants coécrit...

third-largest desert overall, smaller only than the deserts of Antarctica and the northern Arctic. The name "Sahara" is derived from Arabic: صَحَارَى, romanized: ṣaḥārā...

Rome is the Roman civilisation from the founding of the Italian city of Rome in the 8th century BC to the collapse of the Western Roman Empire in the...

the Désert. 1782 The Column House is completed. 1785 George-Louis le Rouge, King's Geographer, publishes a series of 24 engravings of the Désert de Retz...

The Roman emperors were the rulers of the Roman Empire from the granting of the name and title Augustus to Octavian by the Roman Senate in 27 BC onward...

Western Roman Empire, also called the fall of the Roman Empire or the fall of Rome, was the loss of central political control in the Western Roman Empire...

Alfred's "restoration" entailed reoccupying and refurbishing the nearly deserted Roman walled city, building quays along the Thames, and laying a new city...

The Roman Republic (Latin: Res publica Romana [ˈreːs ˈpuːblɪka roːˈmaːna]) was the era of classical Roman civilisation beginning with the overthrow of...

The Desert Fathers were early Christian hermits and ascetics, who lived primarily in the Scetes desert of the Roman province of Egypt, beginning around...

Roman Arkadyevich Abramovich (Russian: Роман Аркадьевич Абрамович, IPA: [rɐˈman ɐrˈkadʲjɪvʲɪtɕ ɐbrɐˈmovʲɪtɕ]; born 24 October 1966) is a Russian-Israeli...

films and tv shows set in the city of Rome during the Roman Kingdom, the Roman Republic, or the Roman Empire. The films only partly set in Rome are so noted...

and Roman era fortress located in Egypt's vast Western Desert in the Kharga Oasis. which was built under the Ptolemies and then under the Roman Emperors...

commercial units of Romans who moved across the Sahara and into the interior of Africa and its coast. However, there was a more significant Roman and Greek presence...

Roman Egypt was an imperial province of the Roman Empire from 30 BC to AD 641. The province encompassed most of modern-day Egypt except for the Sinai...

abandoned in the 7th century, which is unusually late compared to other deserted Roman settlements. Silcester was recorded in the 11th century, when one Alestan...

The Kyzylkum Desert (Uzbek: Qizilqum, Қизилқум, قِیزِیل‌قُوم; Kazakh: Қызылқұм, romanized: Qyzylqūm, قىزىلقۇم) is the 15th largest desert in the world...

36°00′N 6°30′E / 36°N 6.5°E / 36; 6.5 Numidia was a Roman province on the North African coast, comprising roughly the territory of northeastern Algeria...

The First Jewish–Roman War (66–74 CE), sometimes called the Great Jewish Revolt, the First Jewish Revolt, or the Jewish War, was the first of three major...

Ruth Roman (born Norma Roman; December 22, 1922 – September 9, 1999) was an American actress of film, stage, and television. After playing stage roles...

The Roman legion (Latin: legiō, Latin: [ˈɫɛɡioː]), the largest military unit of the Roman army, was composed of Roman citizens serving as legionaries...

The Nafud desert or simply The Nafud (Arabic: صحراء النفود, romanized: ṣahrā' an-nafūd) is a desert in the northern part of the Arabian Peninsula at 28°18′N...

Historical states Roman Kingdom, 753–509 BC Roman Republic, 509–44 BC Roman Empire, 27 BC – AD 395 Western Roman Empire, 286–476 Kingdom of Italy, 476–493...

Ummayads. In 804, he founded the abbey in Gellone (now Saint-Guilhem-le-Désert) near Lodève in the diocese of Maguelonne. He granted property to Gellone...

Alfred's restoration entailed reoccupying and refurbishing the nearly deserted Roman walled city, building quays along the Thames, and laying a new city...

Augusta" in G.W. Bowersock, Studies on the Eastern Roman Empire, Goldbach, 1994. F. Millar, The Roman Near East, London, 1994, pp. 514 ff. "Carte des trois...

Saint-Nazaire-le-Désert, Les Tonils, Pradelle, and Brette. In 1178, the castle of Rocha Forcha was built by the bishops of Die as a stronghold against the Holy Roman Emperors...

The Roman–Persian Wars, also called the Roman–Iranian Wars, took place between the Greco-Roman world and the Iranian world, beginning with the Roman Republic...