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Definition of Arabian peninsula
1. Noun. A peninsula between the Red Sea and the Persian Gulf; strategically important for its oil resources.
Terms within: Muscat And Oman, Oman, Sultanate Of Oman, Katar, Katar Peninsula, Qatar, Qatar Peninsula, Kingdom Of Saudi Arabia, Saudi Arabia, Najd, Nejd, Hedjaz, Hejaz, Hijaz, United Arab Emirates, Republic Of Yemen, Yemen, Arabian Desert, Great Arabian Desert
Group relationships: Asia
Generic synonyms: Peninsula
Member holonyms: Arab, Arabian
Geographical relationships: Ameer, Amir, Emeer, Emir
Derivative terms: Arabian
Definition of Arabian peninsula
1. Proper noun. A peninsula in the Middle East, bordered on by Jordan, the Syrian desert and Iraq to the north, the Persian Gulf to the northeast, the Gulf of Oman to the east, the Arabian Sea (part of the Indian Ocean) to the south (southeast), the Gulf of Aden to the south, the Red Sea to the west (southwest) extending north into the Gulf of Aqaba, and north along the Red Sea Rift to the Mediterranean Sea on the west (northwest). It consists mainly of Saudi Arabia, and may be geologically defined as the Arabian plate, also as the Arabian subcontinent. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Arabian Peninsula
Literary usage of Arabian peninsula
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The History of Nations by Henry Cabot Lodge (1906)
"HISTORY OF ARABIA Chapter I EARLY HISTORY OF THE arabian peninsula FROM the dawn
of history the arabian peninsula has been the possession of the Semitic ..."
2. Physical Geography by Mary Somerville (1870)
"arabian peninsula. § 10. Syria; mountains of Lebanon; character of the valleys
and plains; the Jordan valley; the Dead Sea, its depression below the level ..."
3. Oil Monarchies: Domestic and Security Challenges in the Arab Gulf States by F. Gregory Gause (1994)
"For millennia, the arabian peninsula has been relatively poor compared to the
... The central areas of the arabian peninsula were particularly forbidding ..."
4. The Comparative Geography of Palestine and the Sinaitic Peninsula by Karl Ritter (1866)
"of Alexander the Great ; for the whole arabian peninsula was, so to speak, a
country to be discovered by him. An officer appointed by him, Hiero of Sicily, ..."
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