Kizil

Several blast furnaces are at work here, the soil being ferruginous, as is shown by the word "Kizil," which means red.

The Adventures of a Special Correspondent Jules Verne 1866

In 1991, the sediment discharge rate of Turkish rivers to the Black Sea was 28m tonnes per year, less than half the level before the construction of large dams near the mouths of the Yesil Irmak and Kizil Irmak rivers.

Biodiversity 100: actions for Europe Guillaume Chapron 2010

Yakub Beg was deuced good about it - as well he might have been, considering the risks I'd run on his behalf - and after a tremendous feast in the Kizil Kum valley, at which we celebrated the Russians 'confusion, and the salvation of Khokand - oh, and India, too - we set out for Khiva, where he was moving his folk out of reach of Russian reprisals.

The Sky Writer Geoff Barbanell 2010

It was a good place, that - an oasis deep in the Red Sands of the Kizil Kum, where the Russians still knew better than to venture.

The Sky Writer Geoff Barbanell 2010

For I was attired a la Kizil Kum still, in cloak and pyjamys and puggaree, with a bigger beard than Dr Grace.

The Sky Writer Geoff Barbanell 2010

By the time we saddled up I was full of hate against a vague figure who was Ignatieff in a Cossack hat with the Tsar's eagle across the front of his shirt; I wanted to settle him, gorily and painfully, and all the way on our ride across the Kizil Kum in the gathering dark I was dreaming fine nightmares in which I despatched him.

The Sky Writer Geoff Barbanell 2010

The last-mentioned region lies partly round the Kizil-agach Bay, opening to the south.

Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy" Various

Two immense steppes, waterless, and scorching hot in summer, lay on the route, while it traversed the oases of Kizil-Arvat, Merv, Charjui, and

Historic Tales, Vol. 8 (of 15) The Romance of Reality Charles Morris 1877

It was towards the end of 1885 that General Annenkof finished, at Kizil

The Adventures of a Special Correspondent Jules Verne 1866

The two principal stations have been Yanghi-Hissar, where the train stops ten minutes, and Kizil, where it stops a quarter of an hour.

The Adventures of a Special Correspondent Jules Verne 1866