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Red Sea

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Red Sea
A long narrow sea between northeast Africa and the Arabian Peninsula. It is linked with the Mediterranean to the north through the Gulf of Suez and the Suez Canal and with the Gulf of Aden and the Arabian Sea to the south through the Bab el Mandeb.
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Noun1.Red SeaRed Sea - a long arm of the Indian Ocean between northeast Africa and Arabia; linked to the Mediterranean at the north end by the Suez Canal
Gulf of Akaba, Gulf of Aqaba - a northeastern arm of the Red Sea; between the Sinai Peninsula (Egypt) and Saudi Arabia
Gulf of Suez - a northwestern arm of the Red Sea linked to the Mediterranean by the Suez Canal
Indian Ocean - the 3rd largest ocean; bounded by Africa on the west, Asia on the north, Australia on the east and merging with the Antarctic Ocean to the south
Translations

Red Sea n the Red Sea → el mar Rojo
Red Sea n the Red Sea → la mer Rouge
Red Sea red n the Red Sea → das Rote Meer
Red Sea n the Red Sea → il mar Rosso


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And they stole away out of the palace by night unawares, and seated themselves on the griffin, who flew back with them over the Red Sea.
"I will give you," she said, "all the riches of the Red Sea.
But not to speak of the passage through the whole length of the Mediterranean, and another passage up the Persian Gulf and Red Sea, such a supposition would involve the complete circumnavigation of all Africa in three days, not to speak of the Tigris waters, near the site of Nineveh, being too shallow for any whale to swim in.
 
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