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  2. Atqasuk, Alaska - Wikipedia

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    Atqasuk is located at (70.477663, -157.418056), on the Meade [7]According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 42.3 square miles (110 km 2), of which 38.9 square miles (101 km 2) is land and 3.5 square miles (9.1 km 2) (8.22%) is water.

  3. Geography and cartography in the medieval Islamic world

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    Islamic regional cartography is usually categorized into three groups: that produced by the "Balkhī school", the type devised by Muhammad al-Idrisi, and the type that are uniquely found in the Book of curiosities. [3] The maps by the Balkhī schools were defined by political, not longitudinal boundaries and covered only the Muslim world.

  4. Native Village of Atqasuk - Wikipedia

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    Native Village of Atqasuk is headquartered in the city of Atqasuk in the North Slope Borough of Alaska. [2] As of 2005, the tribe had 254 enrolled citizens. [3] See also

  5. Book of Roads and Kingdoms - Wikipedia

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    Map of Arabia from the Kitab al-Masalik wa'l-Mamalik by al-Istakhri (copy dated to c. 1306 CE). The Book of Roads and Kingdoms (Arabic: كتاب المسالك والممالك, Kitāb al-Masālik waʿl-Mamālik [1]) is a group of Islamic manuscripts composed from the Middle Ages to the early modern period. [2]

  6. Iram of the Pillars - Wikipedia

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    Iram became widely known to Western literature with the translation of the story "The City of Many-Columned Iram and Abdullah Son of Abi Kilabah" in The Book of One Thousand and One Nights. [ 11 ] In 1998, the amateur archaeologist Nicholas Clapp proposed that Iram is the same as another legendary place Ubar , and he identifies Ubar as the ...

  7. Anaktuvuk Pass, Alaska - Wikipedia

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    The racial makeup of the city was 81.2% Native American, 7.1% White, 0.3% Black, 0.3% Pacific Islander and 9.0% from two or more races. 2.2% were Hispanic or Latino of any race. As of the census [ 7 ] of 2000, there were 282 people, 84 households, and 57 families living in the city.

  8. Nimrud - Wikipedia

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    Nimrud (/ n ɪ m ˈ r uː d /; Syriac: ܢܢܡܪܕ Arabic: النمرود) is an ancient Assyrian city (original Assyrian name Kalḫu, biblical name Calah) located in Iraq, 30 kilometres (20 mi) south of the city of Mosul, and 5 kilometres (3 mi) south of the village of Selamiyah (Arabic: السلامية), in the Nineveh Plains in Upper Mesopotamia.

  9. Desert castles - Wikipedia

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    Area map of desert castles in Jordan. Qasr Ain es-Sil, [19] an Umayyad farming estate with an attached bathing complex in the Azraq oasis, east of Amman; Qusayr 'Amra, [20] a "desert castle" about 85 km (53 mi) east of Amman, important for frescos; Qasr al-'Azraq, a "desert castle" about 100 km (62 mi) east of Amman [21]