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A spring of fresh water, surrounded by a fertile region of vegetation, in a desert.

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A quiet, peaceful place or situation separated from surrounding noise or bustle.

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The park was an oasis in the middle of the busy city.

It was like an oasis in the desert.

A caravan road to the south goes through the oasis of Kurkur.

Trickling water circled the oasis, its source a small spring in the center.

If what she said were true, the oasis around them was on fire.

Last night was an oasis, a slip.

In 1882 the oasis of Mzab was annexed.

The surrounding oasis is very fertile.

Phosphates occur also in Egypt, in the desert east of Keneh and in the Dakla oasis in the Libyan desert.

Before the opening of this canal in 1863 water had to be brought from " the Wells of Moses," a small oasis 3 m.

In the Great Oasis he built a temple to Ammon.

Oasis turns in a relatively introspective second record, filled with big, gorgeous ballads instead of ripping rockers.

It was Albarn who had the release date for the single put forward to coincide with Oasis' 'Roll With It'.

East of the oases of Baharia and Farafra is a very striking line of these sand dunes; rarely more than 3 miles wide, it extends almost continuously from Moghara in the north, passing along the west side of Kharga Oasis to a point near the Nile in the neighborhood of Abu Siinbelhaving thus a length of nearly 550 m.

Here, near the town of Kharga, the ancient Hebi, is a temple of Ammon built by Darius I., and in the same oasis are other ruins of the period of the Ptolemies and Caesars.

The oasis of Siwa (Jupiter Ammon) is about 150 m.

Existence is made possible in this oasis by a small mountain stream, also called Tacna, which supports a scanty vegetation.

In 1820 the oasis of Siwa was subdued by his arms; in 1823 he laid the foundations of Khartum.

The inhabitants of the neighbourhood of Tashkent and Samarkand, as well as those of the much more northern but better sheltered Kulja oasis, add the cultivation of the almond, pomegranate and fig.

Oasis of the Seas also holds the international titles for the world's widest and tallest cruise ship.

El Wad oasis is one of a group known collectively as the Suf.

In the Kharga Oasis the upper portion consists of variously colored unfossiliferous clays with intercalated bands of sandstone containing fossil silicified woods (Nicolia Aegyptiaca and A raucarioxylon Aegypticum).

It is the starting-point of a road to the Baharia oasis.

He visited Memphis, founded Alexandria, and went on pilgrimage to the oracle of Ammon (Oasis of Siwa).

Thus a rock emerging from a sandy beach may often be observed to stand covered with vegetation like an oasis in a desert.

The geographical character of the district north and north-east of the elbow of Orontes makes it the natural centre of Syria, so long as that country is held by a western power; and only Asiatic, and especially Arab, dynasties have neglected it for the oasis of Damascus.

It is connected with that river by the Bahr Yusuf, which reaches the oasis through a gap in the hills separating the province from the Nile Valley.

Differing from the typical oasis, whose fertility depends on water obtained from springs, the cultivated land in the Fayum is formed of Nile mud brought down by the Bahr Yusuf.

The oasis in which Wargla is situated contains two or three other small fortified ksurs or villages, the largest and most picturesque being Ruissat.

Although it eschews many of the traditional complexities of most strategy games, Oasis retains a fair amount of choice, chance and gameplay strategies.

The Fayum proper is an oasis in the Libyan Desert, its eastern border being about 15 m.

This description refers to a fertile sub-tropical oasis on the partially barren plateau; below in the forested lowlands, where tropical conditions prevail, the numbers and varieties are many times greater.

The oasis consists of a depression in the desert some 1200 sq.

On the eastern escarpment of the oasis on the way to Girga are the remains of a large Roman fort with twelve bastions.

Next to the great temple the most interesting ruin in the oasis is, however, the necropolis, a burial-place of the early Christians, placed on a hill 3 m.

Kharga is usually identified with the city of Oasis mentioned by Herodotus as being seven days' journey from Thebes and called in Greek the Island of the Blessed.

The oasis was traversed by the army of Cambyses when on its way to the oasis of Ammon (Siwa), the army perishing in the desert before reaching its destination.

Whatever these dialects be called, the Kabyle, the Shilha, the Zenati, the Tuareg or Tamashek, the Berber language is still essentially one, and the similarity between the forms current in Morocco, Algeria, the Sahara and the far-distant oasis of Siwa is much more marked than between the Norse and English in the sub-Aryan Teutonic group. The Berbers have, moreover, a writing of their own, peculiar and little used or known, the antiquity of which is proved by monuments and inscriptions ranging over the whole of North Africa.

In 1900 the oasis of Atar, on the western borders of the territory, was reached by Paul Blanchet, previously known for his researches on ancient Berber remains in Algeria.

Adrar or Adgar is also the name sometimes given to the chief settlement in the oasis of Tuat in the Algerian Sahara.

Wargla lies in an oasis containing many palm trees.

In later times the Arabic town Atra in an oasis on the west of the Tigris, governed by its own kings, gained special importance.

But little by little it vanished from Iran, with the exception of a few remnants (chiefly in the oasis of Yezd), the faithful finding a refuge in India at Bombay.

The valleys between the ridges are generally sandy deserts, with an occasional oasis of cultivation.

The name Biskra applies to a union of five or six villages of the usual Saharan type, scattered through an oasis 3 m.

The population (1906) of the chief settlement was 4218, of the whole oasis 10,413.

In the oasis are some 200,000 fruit trees, of which about 150,000 are date-palms, the rest being olives, pomegranates and apricots.

In the centre of the oasis is the old kasbah or citadel.

Turkey claimed the oasis as part of the hinterland of Tripoli and garrisoned Bilma in 1902.

In 1907 the oasis and surrounding district was created a circle of the Military Territory of the Niger (see Sahara).

It has several fine public buildings and the streets are lined with avenues of pear trees, while an abundant supply of water, luxuriant orchards, fields and gardens give it the appearance of an oasis in the desert.