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Sahara

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Sa·har·a  (s-hâr, -hr, -här)
A vast desert of northern Africa extending east from the Atlantic coast to the Nile Valley and south from the Atlas Mountains to the region of the Sudan. During the Ice Age (about 50,000 to 100,000 years ago), the Sahara was a region of extensive shallow lakes watering large areas of vegetation, most of which had disappeared by Roman times. Introduction of the camel (probably in the first century a.d.) led to occupation by nomadic tribes who moved from oasis to oasis in search of water.

Sa·haran adj. & n.
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Sahara
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Noun1.SaharaSahara - the world's largest desert (3,500,000 square miles) in northern Africa
Libyan Desert - the northeastern part of the Sahara Desert in Libya and Egypt and Sudan
Africa - the second largest continent; located to the south of Europe and bordered to the west by the South Atlantic and to the east by the Indian Ocean
Tuareg - a member of a nomadic Berber people of the Sahara
Translations
Spanish Sahara [səˈhɑːrə] n the Sahara (Desert) → el Sáhara
French Sahara [səˈhɑːrə] n the Sahara (Desert) → le (désert du) Sahara m
German Sahara [səˈhɑːrə] n the Sahara (Desert) → die (Wüste) Sahara
Italian Sahara [səˈhɑːrə] n the Sahara Desert → il Deserto del Sahara

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Shortly thereafter I started for the Sahara in search of a rather rare species of antelope that is to be found only occasionally within a limited area at a certain season of the year.
I came upon him quite suddenly, and no less unexpectedly, upon the rim of the great Sahara Desert.
Two Swedes, Carl Jenssen and Sven Malbihn, after three years of following false leads at last gave up the search far to the south of the Sahara to turn their attention to the more profitable business of ivory poaching.
 
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