Assuan

There are many other interests in Assuan, which is a delightful place to visit.

Peeps at Many Lands: Egypt R. Talbot Kelly 1897

Thus the desert which surrounds Assuan, which is composed of decimated granite and Nile silt, is generally grey; in Nubia the sand is formed of powdered sandstone of a curiously golden tint, while the desert of

Peeps at Many Lands: Egypt R. Talbot Kelly 1897

"Assuan," answered Peer indifferently, looking out over the gardens, where more and more visitors kept arriving.

The Great Hunger Johan Bojer 1915

The following year witnessed a sharp escalation in jihadi attacks against the Copts, first against churches in Alexandria, and then against the villages of al Hammam in Assiut province, Hijaza Kabali in Qana province, and Kafar Salma in Sharqiya, culminating with the beheading of a Copt in Assuan.

The Coming Revolution Walid Phares 2010

When the men of Assuan make a raid into their land, they take with them bread and wheat, dry grapes and figs, and throw the food to these people, who run after it.

The Itinerary of Benjamin of Tudela Benjamin of Tudela

Middle Ages, came from Mount Zabara (Gebel Zabara), near the Red Sea coast, east of Assuan, where traces of the old workings were found in

Shakespeare and Precious Stones Treating of the Known References of Precious Stones in Shakespeare's Works, with Comments as to the Origin of His Material, the Knowledge of the Poet Concerning Precious Stones, and References as to Where the Precious Stones of His Time Came from George Frederick Kunz

From Basra, at the mouth of the Tigris, he probably visited the island of Kish in the Persian Gulf, which in the Middle Ages was a great emporium of commerce, and thence proceeded to Egypt by way of Aden and Assuan.

The Itinerary of Benjamin of Tudela Benjamin of Tudela

[8] The problem of regulating the Nile inundation so as to distribute the water for irrigation when and where it is most needed has been solved by the building of the Assuan dam.

Early European History Hutton Webster

From Assuan it is a distance of twelve days to Heluan where there are about 300 Jews.

The Itinerary of Benjamin of Tudela Benjamin of Tudela

Thence to the land of Assuan is a journey of twenty days through the desert.

The Itinerary of Benjamin of Tudela Benjamin of Tudela