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WHAT DOES NUBIAN DESERT MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Nubian Desert

Nubian Desert

Coordinates: 20°30′N 33°00′E / 20.5°N 33°E / 20.5; 33 Fragment of Nubian Desert seen from space The Nubian Desert is in the eastern region of the Sahara Desert, spanning approximately 400,000 km² of northeastern Sudan between the Nile and the Red Sea. The arid region is rugged and rocky and contains some dunes, it also contains many wadis that die out before reaching the Nile. The average annual rainfall in the Nubian Desert is less than 5 inches. The native inhabitants of the area are the Nubians. The Nile River goes through most of its cataracts while traveling through the Nubian Desert. This is right before the Great Bend of the Nile. The Nubian Desert affected the civilization in ancient Egypt in many ways. The town of Abidiya is located nearby. This desert is the only habitat for the critically endangered palm Medemia argun, which only appears rarely in some oases in the desert. On October 7, 2008 the meteoroid 2008 TC3 exploded above the Nubian Desert. The sky became so bright, people hundreds of miles away reported seeing the flash.

Definition of Nubian Desert in the English dictionary

The definition of Nubian Desert in the dictionary is a desert in the NE Sudan, between the Nile valley and the Red Sea: mainly a sandstone plateau.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE NUBIAN DESERT

Nuba
Nubain
nubbed
nubbin
nubbing
nubble
nubbly
nubby
nubecula
nubeculae
Nubia
Nubian
nubiferous
nubiform
nubigenous
nubile
nubility
nubilous
Nubuck

WORDS THAT END LIKE NUBIAN DESERT

Arabian Desert
Atacama Desert
Colorado Desert
desert
dessert
Gobi Desert
Great Indian Desert
Great Sandy Desert
Indian Desert
Libyan Desert
misdesert
Mohave Desert
Mojave Desert
Negev Desert
Painted Desert
sand desert
semi-desert
Simpson Desert
Thar Desert
undesert
Victoria Desert

Synonyms and antonyms of Nubian Desert in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «Nubian Desert» into 25 languages

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Translator English - Chinese

努比亚沙漠
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

desierto de Nubia
570 millions of speakers

English

Nubian Desert
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

न्युबियन डेजर्ट
380 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Arabic

الصحراء النوبية
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

Nubian Desert
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

Desert Nubian
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

নিউবিআন
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

désert de Nubie
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Nubian
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

nubische Wüste
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

ヌビア砂漠
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

누비아 사막
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Nubian
85 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Vietnamese

Sa mạc Nubian
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

நியூபியன்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

न्युबियन
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Nubian
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

deserto nubiano
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

Nubian Desert
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

Nubian Desert
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

Desert Nubian
30 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Greek

Nubian Desert
15 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Afrikaans

Nubiese woestyn
14 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Swedish

Nubiska öknen
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

nubiske ørken
5 millions of speakers

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «NUBIAN DESERT»

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Gold and Gold Mining in Ancient Egypt and Nubia: ...
The book covers as a whole the historical evolution of gold mining activities in the Egyptian and Nubian Desert (Sudan) from about 4000 BC until the early Islamic period (~800-1350 AD), subdivided in main classical epochs as Early Dynastic ...
Rosemarie Klemm, Dietrich Klemm, 2012
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The Vegetation of Egypt
(i) Geomorphology The Nubian Desert of Egypt, east of the Nile Valley, comprises the southwest part of the Eastern Desert between Lat. 24°N and 22°N. It is an example of an extremely arid desert. According to the Climatic Normals of Egypt ...
M. A. Zahran, A. J. Willis, 2008
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Neueste Feldforschungen Im Sudan und in Eritrea: Akten Des ...
Thousands are scattered throughout the Nubian Desert. They are found as far north as the Egyptian Red Sea Hills (Sadr 1991) and as far south as the 17th parallel (Hinkel 1992). The vast majority has been looted. CeRDO excavated several ...
Steffen Wenig, 2004
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The Port Folio
The flatness of the Syrian desert may appear less horrid than the barren shaggy rocks of the Nubian desert; but the latter has at least the advantage of variety.' The distance from Shigre to the Nile at Berber was about four days, and some ...
Joseph Dennie, John Elihu Hall, 1822
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Biking the Nubian Desert
Last year, the team crossed the Nubian Desert of East Africa on bicycles. They found the sandy earth inhospitable to two-wheelers, but with a little modification, and that old railroad line . . . We knew the 500-mile journey across the Nubian ...
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Narrative of a Passage from Bombay to England, Describing ...
Journies Across the Nubian Desert; Detention in Lazaretto at Leghorn, Etc., Etc William Bouchier. CHAPTER II. JOURNEY ACROSS THE NUBIAN DESERT, FROM SUAKIN TO BERBER. IN this chapter I' shall have to speak of myself in a ...
William Bouchier, 1834
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The Nubian Past: An Archaeology of the Sudan
(1997) 'The Wadi Elei finds: Nubian desert gold mining in the 5th and 4th millennia B.C.?', CRIPEL 17/2: 67–76. Sadr, K., Castiglione, A. and Castiglione A. (1995) 'Nubian desert archaeology', ANM 7: 203–35. Salih, A. M. (1999) The Manasir ...
David N. Edwards, 2004
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Physics and Modelling of Wind Erosion
Nubian Desert and Northern Sudan: the Nubian Desert together with northwest Sudan is a dust-source region. Four areas have been identified: (1) around (18.5◦ N, 25.5–26.0◦E), to the east of the Mourdi Depression on the northern flanks of ...
Yaping Shao, 2008
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The Landscapes of the Sublime 1700-1830: Classic Ground
In the event, having managed finally to crawl out of the Nubian Desert, Bruce was able briefly to return and to recover the records which he had abandoned, although their testimony made little difference to the scepticism with which his claims ...
Cian Duffy, 2013
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Permafrost Response on Economic Development, Environmental ...
Origin of the "Cracks" and of the "Nubian Desert"? Thus, as stated before, the originally assumed "dry cracks" of Dibeira must in our opinion not necessarily be related to warm arid-drought. Indeed, the morphology of the cracks at Dibeira is not ...
R. Paepe, Vladimir P. Melnikov, 2001

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «NUBIAN DESERT»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term Nubian Desert is used in the context of the following news items.
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Searching Alaska's backcountry for rocks from space
He has a track record, having picked up black rocks that were parts of an asteroid before they rained out over the Nubian Desert of Sudan in ... «Bristol Bay Times, Jun 15»
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Rocks from space may be in Alaska backcountry
He has a track record, having picked up black rocks that were parts of an asteroid before they rained out over the Nubian Desert of Sudan in ... «SitNews, Jun 15»
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Rocks from space in Alaska backcountry
He has a track record, having picked up black rocks that were parts of an asteroid before they rained out over the Nubian Desert of Sudan in ... «Juneau Empire, Jun 15»
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Nabta Playa and the Ancient Astronomers of the Nubian Desert
Nabta Playa is a remarkable site composed of hundreds of prehistoric tumuli, stelae, and megalithic structures located in the Nubian Desert, ... «Ancient Origins, Apr 15»
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Some Notes on the Declaration by Ethiopia, Egypt and Sudan on the …
Egypt, for example, has a huge underground water in the Nubian Desert that is probably more than what the Nile water can provide them for ... «Zegabi, Apr 15»
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The week in pictures
NUBIAN DESERT, EGYPT: The traditional mode of transport used in the desert by Nubian tradesmen still at work today. SHARM EL-SHEIKH ... «Middle East Monitor, Mar 15»
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New Excavations Begin in Sudan
The village of Tombos, located in the Nubian Desert at the third cataract of the Nile, was an important granite quarry in the Pharaonic era. «New Historian, Feb 15»
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Egypt: Time to Return? What's New?
Flying to upper Egypt to the more serene Nubian desert, we will see the sunrise at the fabulous Abu Simbel temples built by Ramses II to honor ... «Huffington Post, Feb 15»
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Archaeologist begins dig in the Sudan, Nile River Valley area
Buzon is excavating at Tombos, in the Nubian Desert in the far north of Sudan, through late February, and she will be excavating Tombos ... «Phys.Org, Jan 15»
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Way We Were: The story behind this 19th century soup plate
They had all been captured as calves in the Nubian Desert before being shipped to Europe. The French giraffe landed at Marseilles and ... «Stoke Sentinel, Jan 15»

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