Sentence examples for fertile strip from inspiring English sources
Located on the Euphrates River and on a main road connecting Iraq and Syria, it is a local trade centre for crops grown in the fertile strip along the river below the cliffs of the desert.
One area of particular contention is the Jordan Valley, the fertile strip of West Bank land along the border with Jordan, where Israel says it must retain a presence for strategic reasons under any future statehood agreement with the Palestinians.
The south of Kyrgyzstan is part of the Ferghana Valley, a fertile strip of land that has a long history of interethnic strife and includes parts of Uzbekistan and Tajikistan.
The most fierce fighting has been in northern Helmand's Sangin valley, a fertile strip of land cut through the desert that is home to hundreds of small poppy farms.
But the truth is that Lebanon has a deep bench of culinary influences that goes back thousands of years, to a time when that fertile strip of land to the east of the Mediterranean began its streak of besiegement by foreigners, including, but not limited to, Persians, Greeks, Romans, Arabs, Turks, and, perhaps most auspiciously, in a culinary sense, French.
A balloon ride at dawn reveals not only the anachronistically modern Temple of Hatshepsut - the only female Pharoah - like a creation of Albert Speer in the wilderness; but also age-old morning rituals along the fertile strip of the Nile, surrounded by desert as far as the eye can see.
In this reading, Eden is a protected space but also a hermetic one, sterile rather than fertile, stripped down to reveal its prison-like essence.
Corn (maize), flax, and tobacco are grown in the valleys and on the fertile coastal strip.
Most people live in villages on the fertile coastal strip, which is intensively cultivated.
The third area comprises a fertile, irrigated strip along the north coast of the Shandong Peninsula.
In Peru the spontaneous privatisation in the 1980s of state farms set up by a left-wing military government has spawned labour-intensive commercial farming on the fertile coastal strip.
