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    4000/africanistes.197. Bliss, Frank (1998). Siwa – Die Oase des Sonnengottes. Leben in einer ägyptischen Oase vom Mittelalter bis in die Gegenwart (in German)...
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  • Siwi language (redirect from Siwa language)
    in the oases of Siwa and Gara, near the Libyan border. Siwi is the normal language of daily communication among the Egyptian Berbers of Siwa and Gara...
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    Oasis (redirect from Oases)
    the North Saharan oases." For example, five historic oases in the Western Desert of Egypt (Kharga, Dakhla, Farafra, Baharyia, and Siwa) once had "flowing...
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  • Berber ethnic group of about 25,000 native to Egypt's Siwa and Qara oases. They speak the Siwa language, a Berber language, spoken by about 20,000, along...
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    the Senussi had a great influence over the peoples of many Egyptian oasesSiwa, Kharga, and Dakhla, for example – the British had to take the Senussi...
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    westward towards the "Ammonians" (Ἀμμώνιοι, i.e. the Amun sanctuary at the Siwa Oasis). An oasis due west from Thebes and at the appropriate distance from...
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    Qara Oasis (category Oases of Egypt)
    edge of the Qattara Depression, 75 km (47 mi) northeast of Siwa Oasis, and belongs to Siwa District within Matrouh Governorate. It is connected to an...
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    Western Desert is barren and uninhabited save for a chain of oases which extend in an arc from Siwa, in the north-west, to Kharga in the south. It has been...
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    Siwa and was joined by 'T' Patrol in October. In November 1941 the LRDG, now under command of the newly formed Eighth Army, moved from Kufra to Siwa (central...
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    Cairo Alexandria Aswan Luxor Hurghada Abu Simbel Sharm el-Sheikh Siwa Bahariyya Suez Port Said Ismailia 27°00′N 30°00′E / 27.000°N 30.000°E / 27.000;...
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