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Laghouat

American  
[lah-gwaht] / lɑˈgwɑt /

noun

  1. a city in N Algeria.


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Milianah to Teniet, two days, staying at Oued el Massin, caravanserai; Teniet to Boghar, two days; Boghar to Laghouat, extremity of French frontier in Great Sahara Desert, three days.

From Notes in North Africa Being a Guide to the Sportsman and Tourist in Algeria and Tunisia by W. G. Windham

This, as you may think, added a good deal to the colonel's reputation; and when we had that affair with the Bedouins at Laghouat we soon saw that he could fight as well as manoeuvre.

From Lippincott's Magazine, December 1878 by Various

On the 30th of July there was seen from the aeronef the little village of Geryville, founded like Laghouat on the frontier of the desert to facilitate the future conquest of Kabylia.

From Robur the Conqueror by Jules Verne

Owen, who knew that Laghouat was not many miles distant, rode on in front, impatient to see the oasis rise out of the desert.

From Sister Teresa by George (George Augustus) Moore

He sought escape in travel, starting suddenly in December for Algeria by way of Oran, and pushing through the desert as far as Laghouat and the Mzab.

From The Life of the Rt. Hon. Sir Charles W. Dilke, Volume 1 by Stephen Lucius Gwynn

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