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  2. Gulf of Aqaba - Wikipedia

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    The Gulf of Aqaba ( Arabic: خَلِيج الْعَقَبَة, romanized :Khalīj al-ʿAqaba) or Gulf of Eilat ( Hebrew: מפרץ אילת, romanized :Mifrátz Eilát) is a large gulf at the northern tip of the Red Sea, east of the Sinai Peninsula and west of the Arabian Peninsula. Its coastline is divided among four countries: Egypt, Israel ...

  3. Aqaba - Wikipedia

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    www .aqaba .jo. Aqaba ( English: / ˈækəbə / AK-ə-bə, [ 2] US also / ˈɑːk -/ AHK-; [ 3] Arabic: الْعَقَبَة, romanized : al-ʿAqaba, pronounced [ælˈʕæqɑba, ælˈʕæɡæba]) is the only coastal city in Jordan and the largest and most populous city on the Gulf of Aqaba. [ 4] Situated in southernmost Jordan, Aqaba is the ...

  4. Straits of Tiran - Wikipedia

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    The Straits of Tiran ( Arabic: مضيق تيران Maḍīq Tīrān) are the narrow sea passages between the Sinai and Arabian peninsulas that connect the Gulf of Aqaba and the Red Sea. The distance between the two peninsulas is about 13 km (7 nautical miles ). The Multinational Force and Observers monitors the compliance of Egypt in ...

  5. Battle of Aqaba - Wikipedia

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    The Battle of Aqaba was fought for the Red Sea port of Aqaba (now in Jordan) during the Arab Revolt of World War I. The attacking forces, led by Sherif Nasir and Auda abu Tayi and advised by T. E. Lawrence ("Lawrence of Arabia"), were victorious over the Ottoman Empire defenders. [ 3][ 4][ 5] Thomas Edward Lawrence – a.k.a. Lawrence of Arabia.

  6. Geography of Jordan - Wikipedia

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    Map of 1965 land swap between Jordan and Saudi Arabia In 1965 Jordan and Saudi Arabia concluded an agreement that realigned and delimited the boundary. Jordan gained 19 kilometers of land on the Gulf of Aqaba and 6,000 square kilometers of territory in the interior, and 7,000 square kilometers of Jordanian-administered, landlocked territory was ...

  7. Jordan–Saudi Arabia border - Wikipedia

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    A map of Jordan with Saudi Arabia to the south-east; the large triangle of land in Saudi Arabia that points towards the Dead Sea is apocryphally known as "Winston's Hiccup". The Jordan–Saudi Arabia border is 731 km (454 mi) in length and runs from the Gulf of Aqaba in the south-west to the tripoint with Iraq in the north-east. [1]

  8. Red Sea–Dead Sea Water Conveyance - Wikipedia

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    The proposed conveyance would have pumped seawater 230 meters uphill from the Red Sea's Gulf of Aqaba through the Arabah Valley in Jordan. The water would then flow down gravitationally through multiple pipelines to the area of the Dead Sea, followed by a drop through a penstock to the level of the Dead Sea near its shore, thence via an open canal to the Sea itself, which lies about 420 meters ...

  9. Ezion-Geber - Wikipedia

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    Pharaoh's Island in the Gulf of Aqaba. Ezion-Geber (Hebrew: עֶצְיֹן גֶּבֶר ‎, Modern: ʻEṣyōn Gevér, Tiberian: ʿEṣyōn Geḇer, Biblical: Ġeṣyōn Geḇer; also Asiongaber) is a city only known from the Hebrew Bible, in Idumea, [dubious – discuss] a seaport on the northern extremity of the Gulf of Aqaba, in modern terms somewhere in the area of modern Aqaba and Eilat.

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