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Isthmus of Suez   /ˈɪsməs əv sˈuɛz/   Listen
Isthmus of Suez

noun
1.
The isthmus in northeastern Egypt that connects Africa and Asia.






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... lead us to the same result. Finally, there is something very significant in the facility with which classic writers confuse such terms as Chaldaeans, Assyrians, and Syrians; it would seem that they recognized but one people between the Isthmus of Suez on the south and the Taurus on the north, between the seaboard of Phoenicia on the west and the table lands of Iran in the east. In our day the dominant language over the whole of the vast extent of territory which ...
— A History of Art in Chaldaea & Assyria, v. 1 • Georges Perrot



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