Crossword clues for aswan
aswan
- Ancient city on the Nile
- Nile dam city
- Egyptian city on the Nile
- Dam city
- Site of Egyptian dams
- Site of a Nile dam
- Lake Nasser locale
- Lake Nasser city
- Egypt's dam
- Egypt's __ High Dam
- As graceful as ___
- African city near a dam
- U.A.R. dam
- Town on the Nile
- Some dammed place
- Site of Egypt's Nubian Museum
- Site of an Egyptian dam
- Nubian Museum city
- Nile river dam
- Major Nile cataract locale
- Large dam
- It's upstream from Luxor
- Huge dam on the Nile
- Great dam on the Nile
- Famous dam
- Egyptian showplace
- Egyptian city near a same-named dam
- Egyptian city near a famed dam
- Egypt's ________ Dam
- Dam site on the Nile
- City west of the Red Sea
- City that's home to the Mausoleum of Aga Khan
- City opposite the island of Elephantine
- City of southern Egypt
- City near Abu Simbel
- City in southern Egypt
- City at the First Cataract
- African dam
- African city near dams
- ___ Dam
- Egyptian water barrier
- City on the Nile
- Egyptian city once named Syene
- ___ High Dam
- It spans the 33-Down
- Nile crosser
- City near Lake Nasser
- Temple of Isis site
- Egyptian dam site
- Dam that formed Lake Nasser
- Dam location
- Nile spanner
- City just north of Lake Nasser
- Dam on the Nile
- Temple of Isis locale
- City south of Luxor
- City that supplied granite for Egyptian monuments
- Egypt's ___ Dam
- An ancient city on the Nile in Egypt
- Site of the Aswan High Dam
- City in Egypt
- Nile dam site
- Dam site in Egypt
- Syene, today
- Nile city
- Dam site since 1902
- With 21 Across, 1960's construction marvel
- Lake Nasser dam
- Egypt's great dam
- African dam site
- "And every goose ___ . . . ": Kingsley
- Dam on 110 Down
- Source of stone used to build the ancient Egyptian pyramids
- A graceful river-bird and dam
- A bird in Egypt?
- Dam across the Nile
- Nile blocker
- Dam that created Lake Nasser
- City north of Lake Nasser
Wikipedia
Aswan (; ; Ancient Egyptian: ; ; ), formerly spelled Assuan, is a city in the south of Egypt, the capital of the Aswan Governorate.
Aswan is a busy market and tourist centre located just north of the Aswan Dams on the east bank of the Nile at the first cataract. The modern city has expanded and includes the formerly separate community on the island of Elephantine.
Aswan (1958–1984), originally named Raafat in Egypt. Aswan was a highly influential grey Egyptian-bred Arabian stallion who stood at the Tersk Stud in Russia. Sired by Nazeer out of Yosreia, he was given as a gift to the Soviet Union by the Egyptian government in 1963, in return for Soviet help in building the Aswan Dam.
He sired 296 foals over 19 seasons, more than any other stallion at Tersk Stud. His offspring were exported all over the world. A life-size commemorative bronze statue of him stands at the entrance to the Tersk Stud.
Though classified as "Straight Egyptian," Aswan's maternal great-great grandsire, Sotamm, was a horse whose pedigree traced entirely to the horses purchased by Wilfrid and Lady Anne Blunt from the stud of Ali Pasha Sherif and imported to England. Sotamm was foaled in England and then sold to the Egyptian government by Lady Wentworth of the Crabbet Arabian Stud. In a near-similar manner, Sotamm's grandsire Mesaoud, imported from Egypt by the Blunts, also sold to Russia and stood at the Tersk Stud when it was privately owned by Count Sergei Aleksandrovich Stroganov and his brother-in-law Prince Aleksandr Grigorievich Shcherbatov.