Sentence examples for oasis settlement from inspiring English sources

The town is a Tuareg Berber oasis settlement where citrus fruits, peaches, apricots, dates, almonds, figs, cereals, and corn (maize) are grown.

The oasis settlement at Nalut on the western edge of the Jebel Nafusa has been a resting place for traders since the fourth century BC.

It is a kind of oasis settlement with scenery like the Swiss Alps, made all the weirder since you can … see down to the White Sands and for miles into the endless desert.

The scattered oasis settlement of Maqta, situated just below the towers in a rugged desert environment has therefore been studied from 2001 to 2003 to understand its prehistoric and present role along the ancient trade route which connected the inner-Omani Sharqiya across the southern Hajar mountains with the ocean port of Tiwi.

The United Nations previously sounded the alarm as fighting between the Islamic State and Syrian government forces neared the oasis settlement.

The people of that area, the archaeologists say, built oasis settlements with imposing mud-brick buildings and fortifications.

Mostly covered with sand ridges on which desert plants grow, the desert serves as pasture for Karakul sheep, horses, and camels, and there are several small oasis settlements.

In the Fezzan region in the southwest, a series of long depressions and basins contain wadis (dry riverbeds) and oasis settlements.

The explorations of the Theban Desert Road Survey, a Yale University project co-directed by the Darnells, called attention to the previously underappreciated significance of caravan routes and oasis settlements in Egyptian antiquity.

Changes took place in the demography of Mesopotamia under the Parthians, and perhaps the most striking development among the population was the increase of Arab infiltration from the desert, which resulted in Arab dynasties in the oasis settlements of Palmyra and Hatra.

Before the British colonial influence commenced during the nineteenth century, the Gulf region was the home of Bedouin tribes and a very few oasis settlements.