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Gallipoli Peninsula
Gallipoli Peninsula Lat. Chersonesus Thracica, narrow peninsula, c.50 mi (80 km) long, W Turkey, extending southwestward between the Aegean Sea and the Dardanelles . The port of Gallipoli gives it its name. It was the scene of the Gallipoli campaign of 1915 and was (1920-36) part of the demili... Read more
Rub al Khali
Rub al Khali [Arab.,=empty quarter], great desert of the Arabian peninsula, c.225,000 sq mi (582,750 sq km); one of the largest sand deserts in the world. The desert occupies much of the southern interior of the peninsula, from the highlands of the Nejd (to the north) to the plateaus of Hadhramaut... Read more
Iberian Peninsula
Iberian Peninsula c.230,400 sq mi (596,740 sq km), SW Europe, separated from the rest of Europe by the Pyrenees. Comprising Spain and Portugal , it is washed on the N and W by the Atlantic Ocean and on the S and E by the Mediterranean Sea; the Strait of Gibraltar separates it from Africa. The Ib... Read more
Eurasia
Eurasia , land mass comprising the continents of Europe and Asia , in which Europe is geographically a western peninsula of Asia, rather than a separate continent. ... Read more
Jethro
Jethro , Midianite priest of the peninsula of Sinai who was the companion and father-in-law of Moses. He is also called Reuel, Raguel, and Hobab. ... Read more
Antarctic Peninsula
Antarctic Peninsula glaciated mountain region of W Antarctica , extending c.1,200 mi (1,930 km) N toward South America; in the south, volcanic peaks rise to c.11,000 ft (3,350 m). Most of its NE coast is fringed by the Larsen ice shelf. The peninsula is surrounded by numerous islands, including th... Read more
Avalon Peninsula
Avalon Peninsula 3,579 sq mi (9,270 sq km), SE N.L., Canada, on Newfoundland. It is nearly divided at its center by Conception Bay and St. Mary's Bay. The peninsula is the most densely populated part of Newfoundland; St. John's is the chief city. A lighthouse and radio direction-finding station a... Read more
Gower
Gower , Welsh Gŵyr, peninsula, c.15 mi (24 km) long and 5 mi (8 km) wide, Swansea, S Wales, between Swansea and Carmarthen bays. Composed of limestone, the peninsula has scenic cliffs and numerous caves, many of which contain Paleolithic and Bronze Age relics. Farming is the chief economic ac... Read more
Isle of Purbeck
Isle of Purbeck peninsula, c.12 mi (20 km) long and c.8 mi (13 km) wide, Dorset, S England, between Poole Harbour and the English Channel. St. Albans Head is the most southerly point of the rocky shore. Ranges of chalk hills cross the peninsula from east to west. The region is noted for the product... Read more
Seward Peninsula
Seward Peninsula W Alaska, projecting c.200 mi (320 km) into the Bering Sea between Norton Sound and Kotzebue Sound, just below the Arctic Circle. The region is mostly bleak tundra, with long, cold winters. Placer-gold mining and trapping are the chief occupations of its sparse population. Nome is ... Read more

Encyclopedia entries related to "Arabian Peninsula"

Arabian Peninsula
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of the Modern Middle East and North Africa ARABIAN PENINSULA Great peninsula of southwest Asia bounded by the Persian/Arabian Gulf to the east and the Red Sea to the west. The Arabian Peninsula is about 1,300 miles (2,090 km) wide...
Tribes and Tribalism: Arabian Peninsula
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of the Modern Middle East and North Africa TRIBES AND TRIBALISM: ARABIAN PENINSULA In the peninsula, a tribe is a group defined by perceived descent from a...Jidda and Mecca — and the towns of the Persian (Arabian) Gulf have long attracted foreigners, it is likely that...
Arabian Horses
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of the Modern Middle East and North Africa ...into Egypt by the Hyksos. The existence of the Arabian horse in early periods is indicated by inscriptions...features, and arched tail carriage. The modern Arabian horse emerged from the Arabian Peninsula after the period of Islamic conquest in the...
Persian (Arabian) Gulf
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of the Modern Middle East and North Africa PERSIAN (ARABIAN) GULF arm of the gulf of oman and...a shallow body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran; it is more than 500 miles...in the gulf. Consequently, all the Arabian Peninsula coastal principalities were...
Arabian Desert
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...merges into the Nubian Desert in the south. The Arabian Desert is sparsely populated; most of its inhabitants...materials. Oil is produced in the north. The name Arabian Desert is also commonly applied to the desert of the Arabian Peninsula.
Jordan
Encyclopedia entry from: Junior Worldmark Encyclopedia of Physical Geography ...located to the northwest of the Arabian h2ninsula. It is landlocked...hot, dry desert wind from the Arabian peninsula, can last for several days...Gulf separates the Sinai and Arabian Peninsulas. Coastal Features The coastline...
Arabic languages
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...Arabic, was confined largely to the Arabian Peninsula until the 7th cent. AD Thereafter the...spoken by about 50,000 people in the S Arabian Peninsula. Its ancestor is may be Old South Arabian, although not all linguists agree...
Gulf of Aqaba
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...arm of the Red Sea, 118 mi (190 km) long and 10 to 15 mi (16.1 to 24.1 km) wide, between the Sinai and Arabian peninsulas; a part of the Great Rift Valley. The gulf, which is entered through the Straits of Tiran, has played a major...
Yemen
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...Asia, at the southern edge of the Arabian peninsula. The present nation of Yemen was...Mandeb, and Socotra , in the Arabian Sea, are part of Yemen. Sana...along the southern edge of the Arabian peninsula. It also has interior...
Oman
Encyclopedia entry from: Junior Worldmark Encyclopedia of Physical Geography ...extreme southeastern corner of the Arabian Peninsula and is the second-largest country...plain of Jalaan, which borders the Arabian Sea on the east; and the southern...OCEANS AND SEAS Oman borders the Arabian Sea and the Gulf of Oman, the...

Dictionary entries related to "Arabian Peninsula"

Al-Hamdānī, Abū Muḥammad Al-Ḥasan Ibn Aḥmad Ibn Yaʿqūb
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography ...x201C; Description of the Arabian Peninsula ” ). Only four of the...X contain genealogies of South Arabian tribes, and book VIII describes...dealt with the merits of the South Arabian tribes, and books IV-VI with...
Arab
Book article from: The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English ...a member of a Semitic people, originally from the Arabian peninsula and neighboring territories, inhabiting much of the Middle East and North Africa. 2. an Arabian horse. • adj. of or relating to Arabia...
Oman
Book article from: A Dictionary of World History Oman (formerly known as Muscat and Oman ) A country situated on the eastern corner of the Arabian peninsula. Physical Oman has a coast on the Arabian Sea, and inland it borders on Saudi Arabia and Yemen. Mountains rise steeply from a narrow...
Yemen, North
Book article from: A Dictionary of Contemporary World History ...North A country on the south-western tip of the Arabian peninsula, it came under the rule of the Ottoman Empire in 1517...Salleh, the country began to look to Western and Saudi Arabian help and advice, despite the hostility of many of...
Coffee
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History ...Yemen and a beverage made from its beans was sold in Arabian coffeehouses. Constantinople's first coffeehouses...beverage spread eastward to India and via Mocha on the Arabian Peninsula back to Holland. Venice had a coffeehouse by 1645...
Yemen, Republic of
Book article from: A Dictionary of Contemporary World History Yemen, Republic of A country on the southern tip of the Arabian peninsula which emerged from the unification of North Yemen (to the west) and South Yemen (to the east) in 1990. Unity remained fragile...
South Yemen
Book article from: A Dictionary of World History South Yemen A former country on the south-west Arabian peninsula. It declared its independence in 1967 and, after long negotiations, amalgamated in 1989 with the Yemen Arab Republic to form YEMEN .
sabkha
Book article from: A Dictionary of Ecology sabkha A wide area of coastal flats bordering a lagoon , where evaporites, dominated by carbonate–sulphate deposits, are formed. It is named after such an area on the south-eastern coast of the Arabian Peninsula.
Wahhābīya
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions ...itself as ghair muqallidīn , non-adherent to parties, but defending truth. It arose in Najd in the Arabian peninsula during the 18th cent. Its founder, Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Wahhāb (1703–...
Naṣārā
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions ...to practise their religion and to keep their property; treaties were similarly made with Christian tribes in the Arabian peninsula. Later, however, ʿUmar had the majority of the Najrān Christians exiled to Iraq.

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The politics of border disputes on the Arabian peninsula
Magazine article from: International Journal; 4/1/1999; ; 700+ words ; TERRITORIAL BORDERS ON THE Arabian Peninsula have long been the source of bitter...the international frontiers on the Arabian Peninsula. At one extreme, resolution...international frontiers on and near the Arabian Peninsula took on great saliency...
Mitochondrial DNA structure in the Arabian Peninsula.(Research article)
Magazine article from: BMC Evolutionary Biology; 2/12/2008; ; 700+ words ; ...Under these suppositions, the Arabian Peninsula, as an obliged step between East...the population structure of the Arabian Peninsula and its relationships...populations. Figure 1: Map of the Arabian Peninsula showing the Saudi regions...
U.S. May Be Ousted From Arabian Peninsula
News Wire article from: AP Online; 4/8/2004; ; 432 words ; ...by expelling Americans from the Arabian Peninsula. The video, posted on an Islamic...dared to implant your bases in the Arabian Peninsula. ... You dared to...just started," he says. The Arabian Peninsula includes Saudi Arabia...
Kaifu Cancels Trip to Arabian Peninsula;Japanese Diplomats Feared Journey Could Look Like Oil-Buying Expedition
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 8/14/1990; ; 700+ words ; ...his long-planned trip to the Arabian peninsula because of the military crisis...Iraqi oil. Months ago, when the Arabian peninsula was at peace, Kaifu...allied military force now in the Arabian Peninsula to protect Saudi Arabia...
STATE DEPARTMENT ISSUES PUBLIC ANNOUNCEMENT ON ARABIAN PENINSULA, PERSIAN GULF
News Wire article from: US Fed News Service, Including US State News; 3/9/2009; 700+ words ; ...following public announcement: Arabian Peninsula and Persian Gulf This Travel Alert...security concerns in and around the Arabian Peninsula and Persian Gulf. U...replaces the Travel Alert for the Arabian Peninsula and Persian Gulf dated...
Arabian Peninsula
Magazine article from: The Washington Report on Middle East Affairs; 5/1/2002; ; 700+ words ; ...world's first compendium of facts on the Arabian Peninsula geared specifically toward children, reported...divided into four main sections, dealing with Arabian history, the coming of Islam, Arabian flora and fauna, and the discovery and relevance...
'The safety of our Indian Empire': Lord Curzon and British predominance in the Arabian Peninsula, 1919.
Magazine article from: Middle Eastern Studies; 7/1/1997; ; 700+ words ; ...s political predominance in the Arabian Peninsula. Included in this definition were...relations, and, more notably, the Arabian interior, from which Britain had...conflicts with his rivals in the Arabian Peninsula. However, as Curzon...
Deterioration and repair of reinforced concrete in the Arabian Peninsula: Sixth international conference
Magazine article from: Concrete; 1/1/2001; ; 700+ words ; ...repair of reinforced concrete in the Arabian Peninsula. Undertaken by a Concrete Society...its impacts on concrete in the Arabian Gulf by Omar Baghabra Al-Amoudi...construction of reinforced concrete in the Arabian Peninsula, which he called 'a...
Kanoo and the BASF subsidiary Elastogran to establish polyurethane system house in the Arabian Peninsula.
M2 Presswire; 5/15/2008; 700+ words ; ...polyurethane system house in the Arabian Peninsula(C)1994-2008 M2 COMMUNICATIONS...service for PU processors in the Arabian Peninsula * Joint venture with...polyurethane applications in the Arabian Peninsula, said Dr. Uwe Hartwig...
Seminar planned on cities in southeast of Arabian Peninsula.
Newspaper article from: Gulf News (United Arab Emirates); 9/28/2009; 642 words ; ...cities" in the southeast of the Arabian Peninsula in ancient history. Dr Hamad Mohammad...He added that in south-eastern Arabian Peninsula a number of cities...originated on the coast of the Arabian Gulf and some on the coast of the...