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Gwadar

(Encyclopedia)Gwadar, port city (1998 est. pop. 43,850), Baluchistan prov., SW Pakistan, at the N end of the Arabian Sea. Traditional industries include fishing and fish processing; there also are facilities for th...

Khambat

(Encyclopedia)Khambat kămbāˈ [key], town (1991 pop. 76,724), Gujarat state, W India, on the Mahi River estuary. Khambat is a trading center whose industries include textile weaving, carpet-making, petroleum, and...

Perim

(Encyclopedia)Perim pārēmˈ, pērˈĭm [key], Arab. Barim, island, c.5 sq mi (13 sq km), off the SW Arabian peninsula in the Bab el Mandeb strait; it is part of Yemen. A rocky and barren island rising to c.215 ft...

Hashmonah

(Encyclopedia)Hashmonah hăshmōˈnə [key], in the Bible, unidentified desert place of encampment on the Exodus. ...

Namaqualand

(Encyclopedia)Namaqualand näˈməlănd [key], region, c.150,000 sq mi (388,500 sq km), SW Africa. It extends from Windhoek, Namibia, in the north to Northern Cape, South Africa, in the south and from the Namib Des...

iguana

(Encyclopedia)iguana ĭgwäˈnə [key], name for several large lizards of the family Iguanidae, found in tropical America and the Galapagos. The common iguana (Iguana iguana) is a tree-living, strictly vegetarian s...

Kozhikode

(Encyclopedia)Kozhikode kăˈlĭkət [key], city (1991 pop. 419,531), Kerala state, SW India, on the Malabar coast of the Arabian Sea. Once the leading port of S India, it declined in the 19th cent. but remains the...

Dhahran

(Encyclopedia)Dhahran däränˈ, däˌhəränˈ [key], city, NE Saudi Arabia, near the Persian Gulf...

Eudoxus of Cyzicus

(Encyclopedia)Eudoxus of Cyzicus sĭzˈĭkəs [key], fl. 130 b.c., Greek navigator in the service of the Ptolemies. He explored the Arabian Sea for Ptolemy VIII. After being blown from his course to the east coast ...

Jeshimon

(Encyclopedia)Jeshimon jĕshˈĭmŏn [key], in the Bible, desert, the Wilderness of Judah, between the hill country and the Dead Sea. ...