Definitions
Sorry, no definitions found. You may find more data at ghadames.
Etymologies
Sorry, no etymologies found.
Support
Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word Ghadames.
Examples
-
This was the small black date of Ghadames, which is peculiar to two or three oases about here.
Travels in the Great Desert of Sahara, in the Years of 1845 and 1846 James Richardson 1828
-
Many of them live in the white-walled cities such as Ghadames, Kand, and Timbuktu -- all large centres of population.
Wealth of the World's Waste Places and Oceania Jewett Castello Gilson
-
South of Ghadames, we entered the wilderness of Hamada al-Hamra and passed three cars in 150km.
Tea in the Sahara: a road trip through the Libyan desert Sara Wheeler 2010
-
Ghadames was once the pre-eminent Saharan trading hub (today the walled old town is a Unesco world heritage site).
Tea in the Sahara: a road trip through the Libyan desert Sara Wheeler 2010
-
Petrol is 10p a litre in Libya, and 10 times that in neighbouring Tunisia, and around Ghadames and Ubari people fill cans and custom-built 100-litre tanks to siphon off in more lucrative markets.
Tea in the Sahara: a road trip through the Libyan desert Sara Wheeler 2010
-
The hotel on the outskirts of Ghadames new town was characteristic of tourism in the Libyan interior.
Tea in the Sahara: a road trip through the Libyan desert Sara Wheeler 2010
-
BP and its Libyan partner, the Libya Investment Corp., or LIC, in May 2007 signed an exploration and production deal with NOC worth at least $900 million for the onshore Ghadames and offshore Sirt areas, covering an exploration area of around 54,000 square kilometers.
-
Walking the covered lanes of Ghadames, an oasis town 550km from Tripoli, one sensed the ghostly presence of medieval traders, reclining in the shade of pomegranate trees in cool courtyard gardens.
Tea in the Sahara: a road trip through the Libyan desert Sara Wheeler 2010
-
By all accounts, the second EPSA IV bidding round was fiercely competitive, with winning bidders forced to slash their production percentages sharply – as low as 6.8 percent – for the most coveted acreage in Murzuq (considered a good prospect) and Ghadames (second largest producing area in Libya).
-
In recent years large new discoveries have been made in the Ghadames and el-Bouri fields, as well as in the Sirte basin.
Comments
Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.