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Definition of Assuan

1. Noun. An ancient city on the Nile in Egypt; two dams across the Nile have been built nearby.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Assuan

Literary usage of Assuan

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Redemption of Egypt by William Basil Worsfold (1899)
"assuan lies 130 miles southward of Luxor, and it marks the boundary line where Egypt ceases and Nubia begins. The train by which we travelled left Luxor at ..."

2. Ancient Records of Egypt: Historical Documents from the Earliest Times to by James Henry Breasted (1906)
"The most important of Mentuhotep IPs monuments' is the relief on the rocks at Shatt er-Regal, near assuan,b where, accompanied by his mother, ..."

3. The Design and Construction of Dams: Including Masonry, Earth, Rock-fill by Edward Wegmann (1905)
"The assuan Dam* (Plates L and M) was constructed in 1898 to 1903 across the Nile at assuan, about 700 miles from the Mediterranean, in order to retain the ..."

4. The Nile in 1904 by William Willcocks (1904)
"From Khartoum to assuan, on a total length of 1809 kilometres, ... At the head of the 1st Cataract is the assuan dam, regulated on for the first time in ..."

5. Sanitary Engineering with Respect to Water-supply and Sewage Disposal by Leveson Francis Vernon-Harcourt (1907)
"Flood Sluiceways : object of, across the Nile, pierced with sluiceways to avoid silting up and undue scour at toe ; assuan Masonry Dam, length, ..."

6. Commercial Geography by Albert Perry Brigham (1911)
"Nile dam at assuan great dam ... assuan, waters are stored and perennial irrigation is extended over large areas. This will increase the products, ..."

7. Irrigation Engineering by Herbert Michael Wilson (1909)
"assuan Dam and Assiout Weir, Egypt.—The former of these is the greatest masonry dam in existence, completed in 1902, and extends across the valley of the ..."

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