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... south , northward past Petra , along the northern route east of the Jordan River as far as the Hawran region south of Damascus . The Nabataean territory - except for its south- ern part - was incorporated into the Roman Provincia Arabia ...
... south , northward past Petra , along the northern route east of the Jordan River as far as the Hawran region south of Damascus . The Nabataean territory - except for its south- ern part - was incorporated into the Roman Provincia Arabia ...
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... South Pacific more than 1,000 miles ( 1,600 kilometres ) southeast of Australia , its nearest neighbour . The country comprises two main islands — the North and South islands — and a number of small islands , some of them hundreds of ...
... South Pacific more than 1,000 miles ( 1,600 kilometres ) southeast of Australia , its nearest neighbour . The country comprises two main islands — the North and South islands — and a number of small islands , some of them hundreds of ...
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... south ; associated with the continent is Greenland , the largest island in the world , and such offshore groups as the Arctic Archipelago , the Bahamas , the Greater and Lesser Antilles , the Queen Charlotte Islands , and the Aleutian ...
... south ; associated with the continent is Greenland , the largest island in the world , and such offshore groups as the Arctic Archipelago , the Bahamas , the Greater and Lesser Antilles , the Queen Charlotte Islands , and the Aleutian ...
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