• The Arab, Arabic, or Arabian mile (Arabic: الميل, al-mīl) was a historical Arabic unit of length. Its precise length is disputed, lying between 1,800...
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    "geographical mile", although the geographical mile is now a separate standard unit. The Arabic mile (الميل, al-mīl) was not the common Arabic unit of length;...
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  • League (unit) (redirect from French mile)
    league of the degree was based on four Arabic miles. Although most contemporary accounts used an Arabic mile of 6 444 feet (1,964 metres), which gave...
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    The Arabic alphabet, or the Arabic abjad, is the Arabic script as specifically codified for writing the Arabic language. It is written from right-to-left...
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  • ancient unit of volume, equal to 2 to 4 liters, depending on region. The Arabic mile (al-mīl), a unit of length employed by Arab geographers and scientists...
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    Al-Farghani (category Articles containing Arabic-language text)
    calculations for his voyages to America (but mistakenly interpreted Arabic miles as Roman miles). In addition to making substantial contributions to astronomy...
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    degree, reading the Arabic astronomer's writings as if, rather than using the Arabic mile (about 1,830 m), he had used the Italian mile (about 1,480 meters)...
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    instead of 40,000. Earth radius Spherical Earth Nautical mile Geographical mile Arabic mile Humerfelt, Sigurd (26 October 2010). "How WGS 84 defines Earth"...
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  • translated as "mile": Arabic mile (الميل, al-mīl) Austrian mile (Meile) Chinese mile (里, li) Croatian mile (milja) Danish mile (mil) German mile (Meile) Greek...
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    Old Arabic is the name for any Arabic language or dialect continuum before Islam. Various forms of Old Arabic are attested in scripts like Safaitic, Hismaic...
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