“ABU”

The following 5 entries include the term ABU.

Abū al-Qāsim

biographical name

circa 936–circa 1013 Spanish Arab physician and medical writer

Abū Bakr

biographical name

circa 573–634 1st caliph of Mecca

Abu Dhabi

geographical name

sheikhdom, the most populous member of the United Arab Emirates population 2,135,000

Abu Qir

geographical name

bay in northern Egypt between Alexandria and the Rosetta mouth of the Nile River (the mouth of the western branch of the Nile)

Abu Simbel

geographical name

locality in southern Egypt on the left bank of the Nile River southwest of Aswân; site of two rock temples which were moved 1964–66 to higher ground when the area was flooded after completion of the Aswân High Dam


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