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  1. en.wikipedia.org

    The Sahara (/ s ə ˈ h ɑːr ə /, / s ə ˈ h ær ə /) is a desert spanning across North Africa.With an area of 9,200,000 square kilometres (3,600,000 sq mi), it is the largest hot desert in the world and the third-largest desert overall, smaller only than the deserts of Antarctica and the northern Arctic. [1] [2] [3]The name "Sahara" is derived from Arabic: صَحَارَى, romanized ...
  2. britannica.com

    Dec 28, 2024Sahara, largest desert in the world. Filling nearly all of northern Africa, it measures approximately 3,000 miles (4,800 km) from east to west and between 800 to 1,200 miles from north to south and has a total area of some 3,320,000 square miles (8,600,000 square km). ... People have lived in the Sahara long before recorded history, at certain ...
  3. smithsonianmag.com

    The Sahara has long been subject to periodic bouts of humidity and aridity. ... At repeated intervals throughout Earth's history, there's been more energy pouring in from the sun during the ...
  4. britannica.com

    6 days agoHistory. Little is known of the prehistory of Western Sahara, although Neolithic (New Stone Age) rock engravings in Saguia el-Hamra and in isolated locations in the south suggest that it was occupied by a succession of hunting and pastoral groups, with some agriculturists in favoured locales, prior to a gradual process of desertification that began about 2500 bce.
  5. newworldencyclopedia.org

    History. The climate of the Sahara has undergone enormous variation between wet and dry over the last few hundred thousand years. During the last ice age, the Sahara was larger than it is today, extending south beyond its current boundaries. The end of the ice age brought wetter times to the Sahara, from about 8000 B.C.E. to 6000 B.C.E., perhaps due to low pressure areas over the collapsing ...
  6. britannica.com

    Dec 28, 2024Sahara - Exploration, Climate, Geography: Classical accounts describe the Sahara much as it is today—a vast and formidable barrier. The Egyptians controlled only their neighbouring oases and, occasionally, lands to the south; the Carthaginians apparently continued the commercial relationships with the interior that had been established during the Bronze Age. Herodotus described a desert ...
  7. History of The Sahara Before Colonisation. Before the establishment of the protectorate, Morocco was a fully sovereign, independent and united State. The Sahara was completely under Moroccan sovereignty. Moroccan Sultans (Monarchs) exercised their power over the Sahrawi tribes through both the appointment of caids (sheriffs) or their personal ...

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    Sahara

    Desert on the African continent

    The Sahara is a desert spanning across North Africa. With an area of 9,200,000 square kilometres, it is the largest hot desert in the world and the third-largest desert overall, smaller only than the deserts of Antarctica and the northern Arctic. The name "Sahara" is derived from Arabic: صَحَارَى, romanized: ṣaḥārā /sˤaħaːraː/, a broken plural form of ṣaḥrā', meaning "desert". The desert covers much of North Africa, excluding the fertile region on the Mediterranean Sea coast, the Atlas Mountains of the Maghreb, and the Nile Valley in Egypt and the Sudan. It stretches from the Red Sea in the east and the Mediterranean in the north to the Atlantic Ocean in the west, where the landscape gradually changes from desert to coastal plains. To the south it is bounded by the Sahel, a belt of semi-arid tropical savanna around the Niger River valley and the Sudan region of sub-Saharan Africa. Wikipedia

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