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    4000/africanistes.197. Bliss, Frank (1998). Siwa – Die Oase des Sonnengottes. Leben in einer ägyptischen Oase vom Mittelalter bis in die Gegenwart (in German)...
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  • Siwi language (redirect from Siwa language)
    in the oases of Siwa and Gara, near the Libyan border. Siwi is the normal language of daily communication among the Egyptian Berbers of Siwa and Gara...
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    Oasis (redirect from Oases)
    the North Saharan oases." For example, five historic oases in the Western Desert of Egypt (Kharga, Dakhla, Farafra, Baharyia, and Siwa) once had "flowing...
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  • Berber ethnic group of about 25,000 native to Egypt's Siwa and Qara oases. They speak the Siwa language, a Berber language, spoken by about 20,000, along...
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    the Senussi had a great influence over the peoples of many Egyptian oasesSiwa, Kharga, and Dakhla, for example – the British had to take the Senussi...
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    westward towards the "Ammonians" (Ἀμμώνιοι, i.e. the Amun sanctuary at the Siwa Oasis). An oasis due west from Thebes and at the appropriate distance from...
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    Western Desert is barren and uninhabited save for a chain of oases which extend in an arc from Siwa, in the north-west, to Kharga in the south. It has been...
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    Matrouh. Siwa Center, its capital was Siwa. The Eastern Section and the Salloum Section were canceled and annexed to the Matrouh Center. The Siwa Oases section...
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    Cairo Alexandria Aswan Luxor Hurghada Abu Simbel Sharm el-Sheikh Siwa Bahariyya Suez Port Said Ismailia 27°00′N 30°00′E / 27.000°N 30.000°E / 27.000;...
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    Siwa and was joined by 'T' Patrol in October. In November 1941 the LRDG, now under command of the newly formed Eighth Army, moved from Kufra to Siwa (central...
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    hundred miles. Siwa Oasis, a Senussi stronghold, lies 160 mi (260 km) south of Sollum on the edge of the sand sea; to the east is a string of oases, some close...
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    Qara Oasis (category Oases of Egypt)
    edge of the Qattara Depression, 75 km (47 mi) northeast of Siwa Oasis, and belongs to Siwa District within Matrouh Governorate. It is connected to an...
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  • erosion. Some 20 kilometres (10 mi) west of the depression lie the oases of Siwa in Egypt and Jaghbub in Libya in smaller but similar depressions. The...
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    Regensburg 2012, ISBN 978-3-7954-2627-9. Das Grab des Siamun in der Oase Siwa. Ammoniaca II (= Archäologische Veröffentlichungen des Deutschen Archäologischen...
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  • discovered in a cave in the uninhabited Sitra Oasis (between Bahariya and Siwa Oases); its provenance appeared to be Persian. Chafetz was arrested when he...
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    Dakhla Oasis (category Oases of Egypt)
    A. The Oases of Egypt, I : Siwa Oasis, Le Caire, Amer. Univ. in Cairo Press. Fakhry, A. The Oases of Egypt, II: Bahriyah and Farafra Oases, Le Caire...
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    Mersa Matruh and Da'aba on the way to Alexandria and from Siwa through the band of oases of Bahariya, Farafra, Dakhla and Kharga 100 mi (160 km) west...
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    Bahariya Oasis (category Oases of Egypt)
    to the surrounding White and Black deserts, and sometimes to Siwa or the southern oases. Tourism is a new and important source of income for locals, and...
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  • Archived from the original on 24 September 2005. Retrieved 7 October 2010. "Siwa archaeological area". UNESCO World Heritage Centre. Archived from the original...
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  • Although human settlements around and in the oases of the Sahara have existed for millennia, a relatively small number of explorers have recording traversing...
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  • They also practiced Polygamy The Nasamones were centred in the oases of Awjila and Siwa in the Libyan Desert. They used war chariots with four horses,...
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    Awjila (category Oases of Libya)
    (388 mi) to the southeast. An 1872 account describes the cluster of three oases: the Aujilah oasis, Jalloo (Jalu) to the east and Leshkerreh (Jikharra)...
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    Quarries at Wadi el Hudi The monuments of Sneferu at Dahshur The Oases of Egypt The Oasis of Siwa its customs, history and monuments Sept tombeaux a l'est de...
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    with mining copper, tin, and gold ore deposits. At that time in steppe oases along small rivers lived fairly numerous Andronovo culture population with...
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    of a sovereign in a vast but almost empty desert. The string of oases leading from Siwa to Kufra and Borkou were cultivated by the Senussis, and trade...
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  • researchers have speculated that this oasis may have been the Bahariya or Siwa Oasis. From there, the Libyan force advanced to Farafra. This was a strategically...
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    physician to a nobleman there. Rohlfs then set off on his own, exploring the oases of Morocco. During this trip he was attacked and left for dead, his leg...
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  • who had thrice made the pilgrimage to Mecca. Travelling by way of the oases of Siwa and Aujila, a black rocky desert was traversed to Temissa in Fezzan...
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    salt pans, seasonal salt lakes, salt marshes, reed beds, and spring-fed oases. Chott and sebkha areas exist in arid regions with clay soils heavy with...
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    enthusiasts in 1995, honors him as a Pilot, Saharaforscher und Entdecker der Oase Zarzura (Pilot, Sahara Explorer, and Discoverer of the Zerzura).[citation...
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