Assuan
Britishnoun
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Had he visited the temples and tombs of Thebes and Abydos and Assuan we should have been told how Memnon led his troops to Troy or how Osymandyas conquered the world.
From The Egypt of the Hebrews and Herodotos by A. H. (Archibald Henry) Sayce
He seized the goods of merchants at Berber, giving them receipts signed to the effect that they should receive payment when he had taken Assuan.
From Ten Years' Captivity in the Mahdi's Camp 1882-1892 by F. R. Wingate
The chief towns on the Nile, taking them in their order in ascending the river from Cairo, are Beni Suef, Minia, Assiut, Akhmim, Suhag, Girga, Kena, Luxor, Esna, Edfu, Assuan and Korosko.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 1 "Edwardes" to "Ehrenbreitstein" by Various
We discussed the various Ports of the Mediterranean, ran up to Assuan in a dahabiyeh, and afterwards made a pilgrimage to Sinai together.
From A Cabinet Secret by Guy Newell Boothby
But failing health obliged him to go to Egypt, where he died at Assuan on the 5th of March 1903.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 3 "Helmont, Jean" to "Hernosand" by Various
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