PROVINCIALISM
Concise Oxford Companion to the English Language
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PROVINCIALISM. A usually pejorative term for a lack of social and linguistic sophistication regarded as typical of provinces and provincials, and for a WORD or other usage that is not accepted in the capital or the main cultural centre(s) of a nation. See
-ISM,
STYLE.
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Crossing the rift; resources, routes, settlement patterns and interaction in the Wadi Arabah.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Reference & Research Book News; 2/1/2007; 514 words
; 9781842172094 Crossing the rift; resources, routes, settlement patterns and interaction in the Wadi Arabah. Ed. by Piotr Bienkowski and Katharina Galor. Oxbow Books 2006 258 pages $90.00 Hardcover Levant supplementary series; v...
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The Tafila-Busayra Archaeological Survey 1999-2001, West Central Jordan.(Book review)
Magazine article from: The Journal of the American Oriental Society; 10/1/2006; ; 700+ words
; ...followed by The Southern Ghors and Northeast Arabah Archaeological Survey (Sheffield: J...kilometers from the eastern rim of the Wadi Arabah to the Desert Highway. The survey teams...magnesium in the Faynan area of the Wadi Arabah, bitumen and salt from the Dead Sea area...
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Project file: recording in the Rift; GIS aids historic research into one of the middle east's most important but poorly-documented border regions.
Magazine article from: GEO: connexion; 4/1/2005; 700+ words
; ...For more than 45,000 years, the Wadi Arabah--a northerly extension of the Great...comprehensive overview of how the Wadi Arabah developed, both geologically and environmentally...represent sites within the actual Wadi Arabah, and on 'routes' leading into the Wadi...
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The Ancient Metallurgy of Copper. (book reviews)
Magazine article from: Mining Magazine; 10/1/1991; 564 words
; ...peninsula subtitled Researches in the Arabah 1959-1984. Volume 1, entitled The...detail the early smelting technology of the Arabah from its primitive beginnings in the fifth...ancient copper smelting techniques of the Arabah by Dr. John Merkel. Third is the theoretical...
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 "The Star (Amman, Jordan)")
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For the Record : Local news and events.
Newspaper article from: The Star (Amman, Jordan); 3/23/2007; 700+ words
; ...the-art lectures by invited keynote speakers. King tours Wadi Arabah *His Majesty King Abdullah II called on Sunday for drawing up a comprehensive strategy for Wadi Arabah to improve the living standard of citizens and contribute to establishing...
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Monks, Martyrs, Soldiers and Saracens: Papers on the Near East in Late Antiquity (1962-1993).
Magazine article from: The Journal of the American Oriental Society; 4/1/1996; ; 700+ words
; ...to a lesser extent) the settled territory east of the Wadi Arabah. The book is in general attractively produced, with a number...and Mampsis, and the contrast these places make with the Wadi Arabah and with the area to its east, where no such development took...
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The path to peace. (agreement between Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organization to end a conflict)
Magazine article from: Foreign Policy; 9/22/1995; ; 700+ words
; ...multilaterals, London talks, Washington Declaration, Wadi al 'Arabah, Casablanca, military-to-military talks - that the novel...The post-Gulf war successes of Madrid, Oslo, Wadi al 'Arabah, et al., were made possible by the historic confluence of...
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ISRAEL: IDF FORCES ARREST 9 WANTED PALESTINIANS IN THE WEST BANK.(Israel Defense Forces)(Brief Article)
Newspaper article from: IPR Strategic Business Information Database; 10/15/2003; 628 words
; ...2003 IDF Spokesperson). Last night (October 12, 2003), IDF forces arrested five wanted Palestinians in the village of Arabah (west of Jenin), and a wanted Islamic Jihad operative in Nablus. In addition, IDF forces arrested a Hamas operative and...
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Early Bronze Age metallurgy: a newly discovered copper manufactory in southern Jordan.(Statistical Data Included)
Magazine article from: Antiquity; 6/1/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...within village settlements found primarily in Israel's northern Negev desert far away from the source areas of copper in the Arabah valley and Sinai Peninsula (Levy & Shalev 1989). Chalcolithic metallurgy was linked to the emergence of the first chiefdom...
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Portal to Petra
Magazine article from: Natural History; 10/1/2003; ; 676 words
; ...became a center for spice traders, artisans, and urbane sophisticates 2,300 years ago. Towering high above the Wadi al-'Arabah, a seasonal streambed that runs between the Dead Sea and the Gulf of 'Aqabah, in southwestern Jordan, majestic cliffs strike...
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Arabah
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Arabah or Araba , depression, on the Israel-Jordan border, extending c.100...Limestone, salt, and potash are mined near the Dead Sea. In the Old Testament, Arabah is variously called a wilderness, a plain, and a desert. It is sometimes...
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Beth-arabah
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Beth-arabah , in the Bible, town, in the Jordan valley near Jericho.
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Jordan
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...segment of the Great Rift Valley (which continues southward into Africa) and includes the Jordan River, the Dead Sea , and the Arabah (a dry riverbed). The inhabitants of Jordan are mostly Arabs, largely of either Palestinian or Bedouin descent. There are...
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Edom
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...Book of Genesis, it was given to Esau , also called Edom, and his descendants. It extended along the eastern border of the Arabah valley, from the Dead Sea to Elat. Edomite history was marked by continuous hostility and warfare with Jews, Assyrians...
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Dead Sea
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...sq km), extending c.45 mi (70 km) in the Jordan trough of the Great Rift Valley between the Ghor on the north and Wadi Arabah on the south, on the border between Israel and the West Bank (W) and Jordan (E). The shore of the Dead Sea, historically...
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