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Assouan

noun
1.
An ancient city on the Nile in Egypt; two dams across the Nile have been built nearby.  Synonyms: Assuan, Aswan.





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... Sinai desert he tells us of "Saracen" beggars and idolaters; in the Red Sea ports he sees "ships from India" laden with aromatics; he travels up the Nile to the Cataracts and describes the Nilometer at Assouan, and the crocodiles in the river; Alexandria he finds "splendid but frivolous, a lover of ...
— Prince Henry the Navigator, the Hero of Portugal and of Modern Discovery, 1394-1460 A.D. • C. Raymond Beazley


Words linked to "Assouan" :   United Arab Republic, Assuan, urban center, city, Aswan, Arab Republic of Egypt, metropolis, Egypt


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