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Arabian Peninsula   /ərˈeɪbiən pənˈɪnsələ/   Listen
Arabian Peninsula

noun
1.
A peninsula between the Red Sea and the Persian Gulf; strategically important for its oil resources.  Synonym: Arabia.






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"Arabian Peninsula" Quotes from Famous Books



... Iranian table-land. Beyond Armenia we cross into the peninsula of Asia Minor, a natural link between Asia and Europe. Southward from Asia Minor we pass along the Mediterranean coast through Syria to Arabia. The Arabian peninsula may be regarded as the ...
— EARLY EUROPEAN HISTORY • HUTTON WEBSTER

... backed by flat-topped hills and rugged mountains; dissected upland desert plains in center slope into the desert interior of the Arabian Peninsula ...
— The 1997 CIA World Factbook • United States. Central Intelligence Agency.

... unlikely they will help either the English or the Egyptians to bag old Osman Digna. If the Turk gets him for a subject, well, the Sublime Porte is likely to be deeply sorry for it later on. "Fresh troubles in Yemen," or elsewhere in the Arabian Peninsula, will be amongst the headlines of news from that quarter once Osman the plotter finds his feet again after his last flight. After the Atbara he just missed being taken by the skin of his teeth, so to speak. His camp letters and private correspondence were all secured. ...
— Khartoum Campaign, 1898 - or the Re-Conquest of the Soudan • Bennet Burleigh



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