Description
This glossary constitutes a historical geographical dictionary encompassing the myriad of places and geographical locations in the United Arab Emirates, from cities and villages, plains and mountains, islands and disposal sites, to lecture venues and tribes, mosques and archaeological houses, wells and dams, ports and lagoons. The content is arranged alphabetically. The material of the book is drawn from a range of sources: from field visits to various regions in the Emirates, from books and magazines dealing with the country’s external and internal affairs, from periodicals and reports, and from interviews with some of the nation’s elderly, as well as from newspapers, geographical overviews of governmental, historical and geographical sites, and other geographical dictionaries of places in the country.
