Wadis   (translated from Russian)
Wadis Wadis — arabskoye the name of the dry ... the strong showers filling up with water. Wadis reach many hundreds of kilometers of length ...
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Cities and landscapes in Oman   (translated from German)
... As much water is advanced by the Wadis that in the fruitful level of zitrusfruechte ... gave its name to the place. Spectacular Wadis, the water from the high mountains to ... old grave towers. At the coast many Wadis flow, of which some lead the whole ... to Race to Madraka and bays and Wadis as in Shuwaymiyah alternate. Modernity holds in ... des zerklüfteten Dschabal Qamar mit tief eingeschnittenen Wadis. Literatur Oman, Peter Franzisky & Kirstin Kabasci, ...
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Geography of Saudi Arabia
... and are marked by dry river beds (wadis) that trace the courses of ancient rivers ... and wells in the vicinity of the wadis, permit some settled agriculture. Of these oases ... in this area, a number of fertile wadis, of which the most important are the ... at its easternmost limit. A number of wadis cross the region in an eastward direction ... is an upland plateau scored by numerous wadis, most tending northeastward toward Iraq. This ...
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Wadi   (translated from Spanish)
... growth and is limited the vecindario of wadis. If in the subsoil or the surface ... possibly they received its name to conform wadis in its route. In other barren zones ... happens seasonal rivers and these present/display wadis, although the term is not used in ... known if the term is related to wadis or with the culture Wayuu. Reference Angel ...
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Wadi   (translated from German)
... Africa one calls such drying rivers Riviere. Wadis are temporarily filled with water only after ... Many Oasen with their Dattelpalmpflanzungen lie in Wadis. Thus that the Wadis fills usually suddenly with water is it ...
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Riyadh   (translated from German)
... Ghasibah on the eastern bank of the Wadis and called the new place Dir'iyyah ... to that about four kilometers of the Wadis, which lay between the two places. Ghasibah ... there. On the opposite side of the Wadis a new mosque developed 1937 ago. Of ...
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Brook of Egypt
... nachal which can denote both rivers and wadis, nahar is only used for large rivers ... both the seasonally flooding Nile and seasonal wadis. The translation Pharangos Aigyptou ("Channel of Egypt ... is only used for larger rivers not wadis, whence Potomos Aigyptou conlusively refers to the ...
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Wadi
... very widely found in Arabic place names. Wadis tend to be associated with centers of ... consider it an inaccurate usage. Crossing wide wadis at certain times of the year can ... to refer to true rivers. List of Wadis a wadi is a geographical landform. W ...
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Hadhramaut
... a very sparse network of deeply sunk wadis (seasonal watercourses). The undefined northern edge of ... centered on traditional watering stations along the wadis. Hadhramis harvest crops of wheat, millet, tend ... enclosed (and often fortified) 'watering stations' at wadis. A hydreuma is a manned and fortified ...
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Geography of Libya
... has constructed a network of dams in wadis, dry watercourses that become torrents after heavy ... and for flood and erosion control. The wadis are heavily settled because soil in their ... logical locations for digging wells. In many wadis, however, the water table is declining at ...
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