Asir
Americannoun
noun
Example Sentences
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Indeed, so much of Abha, the capital of the southwestern province of Asir, seems a world away — and two dozen degrees cooler — from the scorching desert that dominates Western notions of the kingdom.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 28, 2025
The bus was transporting the pilgrims to the Islamic holy city of Mecca on Monday when it hit a bridge in the south-western province of Asir, overturned and caught fire.
From BBC ● Mar. 28, 2023
In 2018, Prince Turki bin Talal was appointed deputy governor of Asir region as his brother Alwaleed bin Talal, detained during the purge, was negotiating a release settlement.
From Reuters ● May 20, 2022
They called him Sheikh, or Emir, or by his kunya, Abu Asir.
From The New Yorker ● May 25, 2015
"It is true, then, that you have left the Asir to follow the way of the thralls, led aside by that Welshman you have with you?"
From A Prince of Cornwall A Story of Glastonbury and the West in the Days of Ina of Wessex by Whistler, Charles W. (Charles Watts)
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