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Definition of Oases
1. oasis [n] - See also: oasis
Lexicographical Neighbors of Oases
Literary usage of Oases
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"The vilayet of Tripoli comprises (1) the region of the oases situated near the
coast and separated from each other by sand deserts: (2) the region of the ..."
2. Egypt by Eva Ambros (2001)
"A good point is that for drives through the oases there are no restrictive conditions,
... Buses from the same company drive daily into the oases of ..."
3. The Geographical Journal by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain) (1900)
"The two oases are separated by a considerable stretch of desert, ... The oases
owe their fertility to the presence of underground water, which, ..."
4. Explorations in Turkestan, Expedition of 1904: Prehistoric Civilizations of by Raphael Pumpelly (1908)
"THE RIVER MURG-AB AND THE TYPE-PECULIARITIES OF THE MERV oases. PAST AND PRESENT.
Rising in the mountains of Afghanistan and swollen by their melting snow ..."
5. Herodotus: the fourth, fifth, and sixth books by Herodotus, Reginald Walter Macan (1895)
"The passage undoubtedly describes the African oases, and it is the earliest ...
The description of the oases is erroneous, exaggerated, and defective. ..."
6. Manners and Customs of the Ancient Egyptians, by John Gardner Wilkinson (1841)
"I have given a section across that part of the country from the Nile to the
mountain range lying behind the Lake Moeris *; and thence to the oases : from ..."
7. The Earth and Its Inhabitants by Élisée Reclus (1893)
"Roman arms had penetrated, and the capital of these oases still possesses a Roman
castle, whose inhabitants have replaced the roof by a layer of earth ..."
8. Russian Central Asia: Including Kuldja, Bokhara, Khiva and Merv by Henry Lansdell (1885)
""T^HE southern portion of Turkmenia, with the ex- X ception of four oases, consists
of a desert. These oases are those of Akhal, Attek, ..."
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