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Syrian Desert

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noun

  1. a desert in N Saudi Arabia, SE Syria, W Iraq, and NE Jordan. About 125,000 sq. mi. (323,750 sq. km).


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About 100 miles west of Baghdad in Sunni-dominated Anbar province, the base sits on the Syrian Desert.

From Time Jan. 5, 2015

In other directions, the city is surrounded by the Badiya as-Sham, the great Syrian Desert, where, for seven months of the year, the relentless sun becomes a blinding enemy.

From Time Magazine Archive

Out over the Syrian Desert last week flew 24 British Royal Air Force planes, fanwise, in quest of something.

From Time Magazine Archive

The first party of white men to cross the Syrian Desert after the War was Dr. Breasted's.

From Time Magazine Archive

Towards night we descended from the hills upon the Plain of Keftin, which stretches south-westward from Aleppo, till the mountain-streams which fertilize it are dried up, when it is merged into the Syrian Desert.

From The Lands of the Saracen Pictures of Palestine, Asia Minor, Sicily, and Spain by Taylor, Bayard

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