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Most important of these is the Barada, a river that rises in the Anti-Lebanon Mountains and disappears into the desert. The Barada flows out of the karst spring of Ain al-Fijah , about 27 kilometres (17 mi) north west of Damascus in the Anti-Lebanon Mountains, but its true source is Lake Barada, a small lake that is also a karst spring located ...
Pharpar (or Pharphar in the Douay–Rheims Bible) is a biblical river in Syria.It is the less important of the two rivers of Damascus mentioned in the Book of Kings (2 Kings 5:12), now generally identified with the Nahr al-Awaj, also called Awaj (literally, 'crooked'), although if the reference to Damascus is limited to the city, as in the Arabic version of the Old Testament, Pharpar would be ...
Mount Amana is at the southern end [3] [4] of the Anti-Lebanon Mountains, [5] [6] [7] [1] near the source of the river Abana. [3] [8] [4] [9] Paul Haupt identifies this mountain as Jabal az-Zabadany, northwest of Damascus. [8] Mount Amana is often confused with Mount Amanus, also known as Mount Hor, at the north end of the Syrian plain. [a]
Abana, a genus of sharpshooter (insect) Artist-Blacksmith's Association of North America , a trade association Abana (film) , a 1958 Indian Sindhi-language film
This is a set of lists of English personal and place names having spellings that are counterintuitive to their pronunciation because the spelling does not accord with conventional pronunciation associations. Many of these are degenerations in the pronunciation of names that originated in other languages.
Ukpata became the last center of the Idua Oron to their present Villages of Idua Afaha Eduok and Idua Asang. From this centers fishing villages were later established around the Cross River and Atlantic coast namely Ube Usukpong also known as Ine Nsesiri, Akpando, Esit Akpa Edok, Ine Ekoi, Abana Community and Ine Odiong.
In the sociolinguistics of English, /æ/ raising is a process that occurs in many accents of American English, and to some degree in Canadian English, by which / æ / ⓘ, the "short a" vowel found in such words as ash, bath, man, lamp, pal, rag, sack, trap, etc., is tensed: pronounced as more raised, and lengthened and/or diphthongized in ...
River Entering the Tigris at Distance from mouth Side of the entrance Length Devegeçidi: right: Havar: Yenice: Karasu: Ambar: Ambar, Diyarbakır, Turkey left: Kuru ...