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Asben

[ ahs-ben ]

noun



Asben

/ æsˈbɛn /

noun

  1. another name for Aïr
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Example Sentences

This territory lies mainly about the borderlands between Sudan and the Sahara, stretching from Timbuktu east to the Asben oasis and along both banks of the Niger from Lake Debo round to the Sokoto confluence, and also at some points reaching as far as the Hombori hills within the great bend of the Niger.

Asben, Air, or Ahir, a kingdom of Africa, in the Sahara.

Ag′ades, a town of Africa, near the middle of the Sahara, capital of the Saharan oasis of A�r or Asben; at one time a seat of great traffic, probably containing 60,000 inhabitants, now with a pop. of about 7000.

I must add, that the morality of these black villages seems of a much higher and purer kind than that of the Tuarick villages of Asben.

Here they do not look upon woman, as in Asben, simply in the light of an instrument of pleasure: but I fear this will soon change.

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