Aqaba (English: /ˈækəbə/ AK-ə-bə, US also /ˈɑːk-/ AHK-; Arabic: الْعَقَبَة, romanized: al-ʿAqaba, pronounced [ælˈʕæqɑba, ælˈʕæɡæba]) is the only coastal...
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The Gulf of Aqaba (Arabic: خَلِيج الْعَقَبَة, romanized: Khalīj al-ʿAqaba) or Gulf of Eilat (Hebrew: מפרץ אילת, romanized: Mifrátz Eilát) is a large gulf...
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The Battle of Aqaba was fought for the Red Sea port of Aqaba (now in Jordan) during the Arab Revolt of World War I. The attacking forces, led by Sherif...
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earthquake struck southern and central Turkey and northern and western Syria. The epicenter was 37 km (23 mi) west–northwest of Gaziantep. The earthquake...
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The Aqaba Castle or Aqaba Fort (Arabic: قلعة العقبة, romanized: Qalʿat al-ʿAqaba), also known as the Mamluk Castle of Aqaba, Jordan, is a Mamluk and Ottoman...
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The 1995 Gulf of Aqaba earthquake (also known as Nuweiba earthquake) occurred on November 22 at 06:15 local time (04:15 UTC) and registered 7.3 on the...
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Syria Palaestina (Koinē Greek: Συρία ἡ Παλαιστίνη, romanized: Syría hē Palaistínē [syˈri.a (h)e̝ pa.lɛsˈt̪i.ne̝]), or Roman Palestine, was a Roman province...
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Syria, and passing through Zarqa and Mafraq. It is narrow gauge; the rest of the Syrian network uses 1,435 mm (4 ft 8+1⁄2 in) standard gauge. Aqaba Railway...
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Borders of Israel (redirect from Israel-Syria border)
Yarmouk Rivers, the Dead Sea, the Emek Ha'arva/Wadi Araba and the Gulf of Aqaba were officially designated as the borders between Israel and Jordan and...
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Gümüs, B. (eds.). "Carnivores of Syria". ZooKeys (31). Aqaba, Jordan: 229–252. doi:10.3897/zookeys.31.170. The Syrian Brown Bear Nezami, B.; Farhadinia...
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south, a line running from Rafah to Al-Jauf and following the Syria-Hejaz border below 'Aqaba; on the east, the boundary formed by the Euphrates and Khabur...
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Kingdom of Syria, both of which Transjordan was part of. During this period, the southernmost region of the country, including Ma'an and Aqaba, was also...
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Occupation of Ma'an (section Kingdom of Syria)
Arab Kingdom of Syria) and Abdullah, who was to become Emir of Transjordan. The region includes the governorates of Ma'an and Aqaba, today in Jordan...
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inaugural edition of the championships was hosted in 1996 in Damascus, Syria. Syria also hosted the second edition of the championships in 1998. The first...
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Israel as a sovereign state, recognized the Straits of Tiran and the Gulf of Aqaba as international waterways, and agreed to demilitarize along Israel's border...
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Africa with Mesopotamia. It ran from Egypt across the Sinai Peninsula to Aqaba, then turned northward across Transjordan, to Damascus and the Euphrates...
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The Syrian Social Nationalist Party (SSNP) (Arabic: الحزب القومي السوري الإجتماعي) is a Syrian nationalist party operating in Syria, Lebanon, Jordan,...
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T. E. Lawrence (section Capture of Aqaba)
against the strategically located but lightly defended town of Aqaba on the Red Sea. Aqaba could have been attacked from the sea but, assuming it were captured...
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9). He led a force of as many as 30,000 north to Tabuk, near the Gulf of Aqaba, in present-day northwestern Saudi Arabia. Following rumours of a Byzantine...
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Arabia Petraea (category Late Roman Syria)
port was Aqaba, at the tip of the wide Gulf of Aqaba at the Red Sea. In AD 106, when Aulus Cornelius Palma Frontonianus was governor of Syria, the part...
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from the Gulf of Aqaba in the south-west to the tripoint with Iraq in the north-east. The border starts in the south-west at Gulf at Aqaba, and then consists...
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currently flies from the Aqaba Flagpole, currently the seventh tallest freestanding flagpole in the world, located in Aqaba, Jordan. The flag contains...
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shoreline along the Gulf of Aqaba provides access to the Red Sea. Except for small sections of the borders with Israel and Syria, Jordan's international boundaries...
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Occupied Enemy Territory Administration (redirect from French-administered Syria)
Aleppo were later to sponsor the Occupation of Zor. The area of Ma'an and Aqaba was administered by OETA East and claimed by the Hejaz. In December 1918...
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the HJR built a line branch line from Ma'an to Aqaba, a port city. The line was later sold to the Aqaba Railway Corporation in 1979. The Hedjaz Jordan...
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as it pushed north from Aqaba after 1917 and had then been included in O.E.T.A. East and, later, in Faisal's kingdom of Syria. Husain, however, had never...
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Gulf of Oman, the Arabian Sea, the Gulf of Aden, the Red Sea, the Gulf of Aqaba, the Gulf of Suez, and the Mediterranean Sea. West Asia contains the majority...
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Mutasarrifate of Jerusalem (category 1872 establishments in Ottoman Syria)
Beersheba and Aqaba, close to the newly agreed border with Sinai al-Mulayha, created in 1908 as a midway point between Hafir and Aqaba Beersheba (Ottoman...
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Hejaz railway (category Railway lines in Syria)
Amman in Jordan to Damascus in Syria, as the Hedjaz Jordan Railway, and from phosphate mines near Ma'an to the Gulf of Aqaba, as the Chemin de Fer de Hedjaz...
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Arab Revolt (category 1910s in Ottoman Syria)
defending Egypt and preparing to advance into Sanjak Maan of the Syria Vilayet. Capture of Aqaba would aid transfer of British supplies to the Arab revolt....
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