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Tiran

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Ti·ran  (t-rän)
A strait off the southern tip of the Sinai Peninsula in northeast Egypt connecting the Red Sea with the Gulf of Aqaba.
Tiran [tɪˈrɑːn]
n
(Placename) Strait of. a strait between the Gulf of Aqaba and the Red Sea. Length: 16 km (10 miles). Width: 8 km (5 miles)
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A security official and a Cairo police officer say the two were part of a group of 14 Spanish tourists sailing on an excursion to Tiran Island when their boat, the Coral Princess, went under in bad weather early Thursday.
2 Spanish tourists missing in the Red Sea by Daily News Egypt (Egypt)
A CHI first in Sharm El Sheikh Malta based CHI Hotels & Resorts opened its newly built Tiran Hotel as part of the Corinthia Beach Resort Sharm El Sheikh in Egypt last month.
In Brief by Travel & Tourism News
The lack of space, and fears that the narrow Red Sea could be blockaded at the Straits of Tiran should there be a regional war, led Israel to rule out a fulltime Dolphin presence.
Israel-military by The Daily Middle East Reporter (Beirut, Lebanon)
 
 
 
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