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unusual facts about oases



Al-Bagawat

The Necropolis of Al-Bagawat is located in the Western Desert in Kharga Oasis which is one of the largest oases in Egypt and is 34 m below sea level.

Avalon Historico-Geographical Society

Its main fields of activities include various expeditions in Kazakhstan and abroad, including bicycle ones ("Bronze Ring of Sary-Arka" and "To the Center of Kazakh Land" were among the most important of them), development of ecotourism (Kyzylarai and Ulytau mountain oases mainly) and bicycle infrastructure in Central Kazakhstan, publishing in tourism and travels ("Discovery Kazakhstan" and "Discovery Tajikistan" guide-books).

Béchar Province

The inhabitants of several oases, notably Igli, Ouakda, Lahmar and Boukais, speak Berber languages, while the rest speak Arabic; in one oasis, Tabelbala, a Songhay language, Korandje, continues to be spoken.

Caravan raids

The survival of nomads (or Bedouins) was also partially dependent on raiding caravans or oases; thus they saw this as no crime.

Clytie arenosa

Subspecies Clytie arenosa nabataea is found in Israel (in oases in the Jordan Rift Valley)

Lovejoy's islands

A good example of a natural Lovejoy island is the Sky Islands of Arizona and Sonora, high elevation oases of northern plants and animals above the deserts.

Shiyang River

Agricultural oases are distributed in the Shiyang River catchment, with Wuwei being the main city of this region.

Simon von Geldern

Subsequently he was chosen by an independent tribe of Bedouins on one of the oases of the North-African desert as their leader or sheikh, and thus became the captain of a band of marauders.

Subularia monticola

On Mount Kilimanjaro, which is mostly arid, Subularia monticola grows in oases made by rain or melted snow collecting in depressions, where it forms continuous carpets of vegetation alongside Eriocaulon volkensii, Cyperaceae and Bulliarda elatinoides.

Wargli language

Ouargli, or Teggargrent (also Twargrit, Təggəngusit), is a Zenati Berber language spoken in the oases of Ouargla (Wargrən) and N'Goussa (Ingusa) in Algeria.


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