 | John Mair (schoolmaster.) - 1831 - 454 pages
...country in the SW of Asia, having the Mediterranean Sea and Turkey on the north ; the Persian Gulf on the east; the Indian Ocean on the south ; and the Red Sea and the Isthmus of Suez on the west. Its ancient divisions were Ara/Aa Deserta, occupying the eastern... | |
 | J. Bezant - Geography - 1857 - 208 pages
...in the arts and sciences, and literature. ASIA — MISCELLANEOUS QUESTIONS. 773 The Northern Ocean on the north, the Pacific Ocean on the east, the Indian Ocean on the south, and part of Russia and the Mediterranean, Red, and Black Seas on the west. 774 It lies between 1° 20'... | |
 | John Heywoods - 1883 - 172 pages
...continents, forms nearly one-third of all the land on the earth's surface. It has the Arc'-tic Ocean on the north, the Pa-cif-ic Ocean on the east, the In'-di-an Ocean on the south, and Europe, the Cas'-pi-an Sea, the Black Sea, the Me-di-ter-ra'-ne-an, and part of Africa on the west.... | |
 | Lothrop Stoddard, Glenn Frank - Ethnology - 1918 - 410 pages
...252 CHAPTER XXI ARABIA HISTORICAL BACKGROUND Arabia is a vast plateau, bounded by the Persian Gulf on the east, the Indian Ocean on the south, and the Red Sea on the west. Its northern or land frontier is rather indeterminate, the sterile wastes of northern... | |
 | Harmon Bay Niver, Edward D. Farrell - Africa - 1922 - 242 pages
...sway over the important southern provinces. The East Indies form an irregular triangle, bordered by the Pacific ocean on the east, the Indian ocean on the south, and the China sea on the west. The Philippines form the apex of the triangle, the long line of the Sunda islands... | |
 | History - 1928 - 472 pages
...Arabia, embracing an area equal to approximately one-fourth of Europe, is surrounded by the Persian Gulf on the east, the Indian Ocean on the south, and the Red Sea on the west; in the north it runs gradually into the Syrian desert. Historically, the best-known... | |
 | Frank J. Matera - Religion - 1992 - 274 pages
...Arabia: While "Arabia" usually refers to the vast desert peninsula between Iraq and the Persian Gulf on the east, the Indian Ocean on the south, and the Red Sea on the West, the name can also denote the area east of Jerusalem. Here, Paul is probably referring... | |
 | John Avetaranian, Richard Schafer - Biography & Autobiography - 2003 - 300 pages
...continent which covers the Near F.ast of Western Turkey all the way to China, bounded by the Arctic Ocean on the north, the Pacific Ocean on the east, the Indian Ocean on Asia Minor Askala Avrenli Azerbaijan Bad Nauheim Bagdad Baiburt Bajavut Baku Balkan Mountains Balkans,... | |
 | Frank J. Matera - Religion - 2007 - 284 pages
...Arabia: While "Arabia" usually refers to the vast desert peninsula between Iraq and the Persian Gulf on the east, the Indian Ocean on the south, and the Red Sea on the West, the name can also denote the area east of Jerusalem. Here, Paul is probably referring... | |
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Gulf on the east, the Indian Ocean on the south, and the Red Sea on the West, the name can also denote the area east of Jerusalem. 