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  • (or "Arab") = land of the West; but in Arabic "Gharb" (not Ereb) is the Occident and the Arab dates long before the Hebrew.

    Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855

  • Irish oil company Circle Oil announced Wednesday it had discovered a gas deposit during its first drilling expedition in Morocco's Gharb

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2008

  • “Eretz Ereb” (or “Arab”) = land of the West; but in Arabic “Gharb” (not Ereb) is the Occident and the Arab dates long before the Hebrew.

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • “Al – Gharb” = the West whence Portugal borrowed the two Algarves, one being in Southern Europe and the other over the straits about Tangier Ceuta; fronting Spanish Trafalgar, i.e. Taraf al Gharb, the edge of the West.

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • But the abandonment of God's Law and the following of man made law saw this being crushed and turned into a zone of war Dar ul Gharb.

    Luton & Dunstable - The Pakistani Moslem threat Lionheart 2007

  • Elaph's articles said that he never joined a battle that he did not win: he certainly lost every major battle from the Suq Al-Gharb battle to the one against the Syrian army when he fled in his pajamas to the French embassy that he led.

    Tuesday, May 31, 2005 As'ad 2005

  • Wazen, or Wazein, in the province of Azgar, and the region of the Gharb, is a small city without Walls, celebrated for being the residence of the High Priest, or Grand Marabout of the Empire.

    Travels in Morocco 2003

  • In consequence of an alleged treaty, but which does not exist on paper, the Emperor of Morocco has bound himself to supply our garrison of Gibraltar with 2,000 head of cattle per annum, 1,500 of which must be shipped from Tangier, the rest from other parts of the Gharb, or north-west.

    Travels in Morocco 2003

  • Leeches are principally found in the lakes of the north-west districts, called the Gharb.

    Travels in Morocco 2003

  • Trafalgar is nothing but a corruption of Tarf al-Gharb — the side or skirt of the West; it being the most occidental point then reached by Arab conquest.

    Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah 2003

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