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Arabian Sea: Encyclopedia - Arabian Sea

The Arabian Sea (Latin: Mare Erythraeum) is the part of the Indian Ocean bounded on the east by India, on the north by Baluchistan and Sind provinces of Pakistan and part of the southern Persian littoral, on the west by Arabian Peninsula, on the south, approximately, by a line between Cape Guardafui, the north-east point of Somalia, and Kanyakumari (Cape Comorin) in India. It was known as the Sindhu Sagar

Arabian Sea: Encyclopedia II - Arabian-Nubian Shield - Red Sea Rifting and Exposure of the Arabian-Nubian Shield The Arabian-Nubian Shield is representative of the continental crust that underlies NE Africa, SW Asia, and Arabia. Geophysical studies inform us that ANS crust is about 40-45 km thick, typical for continental crust elsewhere. Geologists are interested to study this crust because it provides an outstanding opportunity to learn how continental crust forms. Elsewhere in Arabia and NE Africa the crust is buried beneath kilometers of younger, Phanerozoic sediments and can only be reached by scientific drilling. Glaciers scoured this land during ...

Arabian Sea: Encyclopedia - Arabian Peninsula

The Arabian Peninsula is a peninsula in Southwest Asia at the junction of Africa and Asia consisting mainly of desert. The Arabian peninula is an important part of the greater Middle East, and plays a critically important geopolitical role due to its vast reserves of oil and natural gas. The coasts of the peninsula touch, on the (south)west, the Red Sea and Gulf of Aqaba; on the south(eastern) coast, the Arabian Sea (part of the Indian Ocean); and on the northeast, the G ...

Arabian Sea: Encyclopedia - Kathiawar

Kathiawar is a peninsula in western India. It is part of Gujarat state, bounded on the north by the great wetland of the Rann of Kutch, on the northwest by the Gulf of Kutch, on the west and south by the Arabian Sea, and on the southeast and east by the Gulf of Cambay. A person from Kathiawar is called Kathiawadi. The major cities of Kathiawar are Jamnagar on the Gulf of Kutch, Rajkot in the center of the peninsula, Bhavnagar on the Gulf of Cambay, Porbandar on the west coast, historic city of Junagadh on the South. Diu, an isl ...

Arabian Sea: Encyclopedia - Honavar

Honavar is a coastal town in the North Kanara District of Karnataka, India. It lies on the coast of the Arabian Sea and on the banks of the river Sharavathi which forms an estuary there.It lies midway between Goa and Mangalore. Though of no significant importance by itself, Honavar is known for the places of scenic beauty and religious importance that flank it. Some of these include the towns of Murdeshwar and Idagunji, both places of religious importance and Karikanamma, a scenic mountain that

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Arabian Sea: Encyclopedia - Arabian Plate

The Arabian Plate is a continental tectonic plate covering the Arabian peninsula and extending northward to Turkey. The plate borders are: East, with the Indo-Australian Plate South, with the African Plate to the west and the Indo-Australian Plate to the east West, divergent boundary with the African Plate forming the northern part of the Great Rift Valley and the Red Sea rift zone. North, with the Eurasian Plate Other related archivesAfrican Pla

Arabian Sea: Encyclopedia - Dandi Gujarat

Dandi is a small village in the district of Surat, Gujarat, India. It is located on the coast of the Arabian Sea near the city of Surat. It shot into worldwide prominence in 1930 when Mahatma Gandhi selected it to be the place for the Salt Satyagraha. He marched from Ahmedabad to Dandi with some of his followers to protest against the imposition of a tax on salt. It could be said that in this village the be ...

Arabian Sea: Encyclopedia - Yemen

The Republic of Yemen (Arabic: الجمهورية اليمنية), composed of former North and South Yemen, is a country on the Arabian Peninsula in Southwest Asia and is a part of the Middle East, bordering the Arabian Sea and Gulf of Aden on the south and the Red Sea on the west. It borders Oman to the northeast and Saudi Arabia elsewhere. Its territory includes the remote island of Socotra, about 350 km to the south off the coast of East Africa. Yemen - History. Main article: History of Yemen ...

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Arabian Sea: Encyclopedia - Kovalam

Kovalam is a beach on the Arabian Sea around 13 kilometers outside Trivandrum district in Kerala a small state in south India. There are a few beach resort in and around Kovalam. The sea port of Vizhinjam is about 3 kilometers away. It was among the most prominent tourist spots in India during the hippy era. It still has a high status among tourists (mostly European) even though the glory days are very much over. Kovalam is finding a new significance in the light of several Ayurvedic salons, and recuperation and regeneration resorts which provide a ...

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Kovalam - How to reach there

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Arabian Sea: Encyclopedia - Kodungallur

Cranganore (modern day Kodungallur) and known in ancient times as Shinkli, Muchiri (anglicised to Muziris), Muyirikkodu, Muchiripattinam was a famous and prosperous sea-port at the mouth of the Periyar (also known as Choorni Nadi) river in the southern Indian state of Kerala. It is located about 38 km from the present day city of Kochi at 10°13′N 76°13′E. The name Muchiri (Malayalam for broken lips) denotes the three branches of the Periyar river that open into the Arabian Sea at the town. Kodu ...

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Arabian Sea: Encyclopedia - Vindhya Range

The Vindhya Range is a range of hills in central India, which geographically separates The Indian subcontinent into northern India (the Indo-Gangetic plain) and Southern India. The western end of the range rises in eastern Gujarat state, near the border with Madhya Pradesh, and the range runs east and north nearly to the Ganges River at Mirzapur. The southern slopes of the range are drained by the Narmada River, which drains westward to the Arabian Sea in the depression between the Vindhya Range and the parallel Satpu ...

Arabian Sea: Encyclopedia - Levant

Levant is an imprecise geographical term historically referring to a large area in the Middle East south of the Taurus Mountains, bounded by the Mediterranean Sea on the west, and by the northern Arabian Desert and Upper Mesopotamia to the east. The Levant does not include the Caucasus Mountains, any part of the Arabian Peninsula proper, or Anatolia — although at times Cilicia may be included. The Sinai Peninsula may also be included, but may be excluded as a marginal area forming a land bridge between the Levant and northern Egypt. ...

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Arabian Sea: Encyclopedia - Juhu

Juhu is a suburb of Mumbai. It is famous for its sprawling beach, the Juhu Beach. It is surrounded by Arabian Sea in the west, Santacruz and Vile Parle in the east. Juhu is one of the most posh localities of Mumbai where one can find the bungalows of the famous film personalities of Bollywood. The nearest railway stations are Santacruz and Vile Parle. Juhu - History. The open beaches of Juhu have attracted the well-heeled among Bombay's population for almost a century. In the 1890's Jamsetji Tata pur ...

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Arabian Sea: Encyclopedia - Maharashtra

Maharashtra (महाराष्ट्र in Devanagari) is India's third largest state in terms of area and second largest in terms of population after Uttar Pradesh. It is bordered by the states of Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Goa and the Union territory of Dadra and Nagar Haveli. The Arabian Sea makes up the state's western coast. Mumbai (Bombay), In ...

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Arabian Sea: Encyclopedia - Balochistan Pakistan

The province of Balochistan (or Baluchistan) in Pakistan contains most of historical Balochistan and is named after the Baloch. Neighbouring regions are Iranian Balochistan to the west, Afghanistan and Federally Administered Tribal Areas, Pakistan to the north and Punjab and Sindh to the east. To the south is the Arabian Sea. The principal languages in the province are Baluchi, Pashto, Brahui, and Persian (Farsi). The capital and largest city is Quetta. Balochistan Pakistan - History. See al ...

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Arabian Sea: Encyclopedia - Western Ghats

The Western Ghats or Sahyadri mountains (as they are known in the state of Maharashtra) run along the western edge of India's Deccan Plateau, and separate the plateau from a narrow coastal plain along the Arabian Sea. The range starts south of the Tapti River near the border of Gujarat and Maharashtra, and runs approximately 1600 km through the states of Maharashtra, Goa, Karnataka, Kerala, and Tamil Nadu, to the southern tip of the Indian peninsula. The average elevation is around 900 meters. ...

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Arabian Sea: Encyclopedia - Middle East

The Middle East is a political and cultural subregion of Asia, or of Africa-Eurasia. The core of the region comprises the lands between the Mediterranean Sea and the Persian Gulf along with the Anatolian, Arabian and Sinai peninsulas. Sometimes, it is used in a broader sense which can include areas stretching from North Africa in the west to Pakistan in the east and the Caucasus and/or Central Asia in the north. The media and various international organizations (such as the United Nations) usually considers the Middle East to be Southwest A ...

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Arabian Sea: Encyclopedia - Bab-el-Mandeb

The Bab-el-Mandeb, alternatively Bab el Mandab, Bab al Mandab, or Bab al Mandeb means "Gate of Tears" in Arabic (باب المندب), is the strait separating the continents of Asia (Yemen on the Arabian Peninsula) and Africa (Djibouti, north of Somalia on the Horn of Africa), connecting the Red Sea to the Indian Ocean (Gulf of Aden). Note that some English maps simply state Mandab Strait to save space. It derives its name from the dangers attending its navigation, or, according to an Arab legend, f ...

Arabian Sea: Encyclopedia - Bedouin

Bedouin, derived from the Arabic badawi بدوي, a generic name for a desert-dweller, is a term generally applied to Arab nomadic groups, who are found throughout most of the desert belt extending from the Atlantic coast of the Sahara via the Western Desert, Sinai, and Negev to the eastern coast of the Arabian desert. It is occasionally used to refer to non-Arab groups as well, notably the Beja of the African coast of the Red Sea. Bedouin - Changing ways of life. Starting in the 1950s and 196 ...