Arabian Peninsula
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The Arabian Peninsula is a land mass situated north-east of Africa. Also known as Arabia or the Arabian subcontinent, it is the world's largest peninsula and covers 3,237,500 km2 (1,250,000 mi2). The area is an important part of the Asian continent and plays a critical geopolitical role of the Middle East and Arab World due to its vast reserves of oil and natural gas. The peninsula formed as a result of the rifting of the Red Sea between 56 and 23 million years ago, and is bordered by the Red Sea to the west, the Persian Gulf to the northeast, and the Indian Ocean to the southeast.
Arabic literature
The The Book of One Thousand and One Nights were "translated" into French — and quite possibly made up from very thin or non-existent sources as no earlier Arabic manuscripts of Aladdin and Ali Baba are known to exist — by Antoine Galland from 1704 to 1717.
See also
- Ancient history of Yemen
- Iram of the Pillars
- Arab World
- Araby
- Arab League
- European exploration of Arabia
- Rub' al Khali (desert)
- Arabia Deserta
- Arabia Petraea
- Arabia Felix
- Arabian Desert and East Sahero-Arabian xeric shrublands
- Mashreq
- Kingdom of Aksum