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	Siwa
		The main settlement is Shali, situated at the centre of the oasis.
		331 BCE: Siwa is visited by Alexander the Great, who comes to visit the famous Oracle of Temple of Amon, seeking confirmation that he is the son of the god Zeus, as well as upholding the image of him also being the son of the god Amon.
		A road between Marsa Matruh at the coast and Siwa is opened.
	lexicorient.com /e.o/siwa.htm (244 words)

	Siwa - LoveToKnow 1911
		The population of Siwa proper (1907 census) was 3884.
		The oasis lies close to the Tripolitan frontier and is largely dominated by the sect of the Senussi, whose headquarters were formerly at Jarabub, 80 m.
		In 1869 Gerhard Rohlfs reached Siwa via Tripoli, and subsequently the ruins were examined by Professor G. Steindorff.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Siwa (563 words)

	Saudi Aramco World : Siwa: Oasis Extraordinary (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The Siwa Oasis lies in a broad low area in the desert of western Egypt, 300 kilometers (185 miles) southwest of the Mediterranean port city of Mersa Matruh.
		Siwa owes its existence to an abundance of permanent fresh-water springs that permit intensive cultivation.
		Each of the pharaohs of Egypt's 28th Dynasty had traveled to Siwa to be acknowledged at the temple there as the son of Amon-Ra, the supreme god; each, thereafter, was depicted as wearing the ram's horns of Amon on his head.
	www.saudiaramcoworld.com /issue/198805/siwa-oasis.extraordinary.htm (1846 words)

	Egyptvoyager.com: Siwa Oasis - Egypt
		Siwa is the westernmost of the five major oases of Egypt and can be reached by car from Baharia or from Marsa Matruh, on the Mediterranean coast.
		Siwa is surrounded by a number of minor oases.
		The region from Siwa to the Mediterranean coast was the scene of more than one battle during World War II, and the area of el-Alamein hosts memorials and war cemetery for the thousands of British, German, Italian, Greek and South African soldiers who died or disappeared there.
	www.egyptvoyager.com /oases_siwa.htm (493 words)

	Siwa. The sweetest oasis
		Siwa appears at first as a sweet and innocent place deep in the desert which has just opened its eyes to the modern world and still let's itself be amazed.
		View from the Gebel Dakrur, overlooking the oasis and the Birket Siwa in the distance, dominated by the White Mountain.
		In early Islamic times, Siwa went into decline and sometime in the 13th century was down as little as 200.
	lexicorient.com /egypt/siwa.htm (205 words)

	Al-Ahram Weekly \| Heritage \| Dialogue with Amun (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Siwa is famous for its dates which, along with olives and oranges, have been noted for centuries as major exports.
		Siwa averages 18 metres below sea level and has always had more than its share of excess ground water, and the salinity of the ground and the size of the lakes have increased over centuries of agriculture and irrigation run-off.
		Blottière, Alain, Siwa: the oasis, Harpocrates, Alexandria, 2000.
	weekly.ahram.org.eg /2004/685/heritage.htm (2747 words)

	Egypt: The History of the Siwa Oasis<
		Siwa, like the other Western Oasis, has had a number of different names over the millenniums.
		However, by 1203 we are told that the population of the Siwa Oasis had declined to as low as 40 men from seven families due to constant attacks and particularly after a rather viscous Bedouin assault.
		The Siwa exported crops to Egypt and Cyrene.
	touregypt.net /featurestories/siwahistory.htm (3347 words)

	Siwa ~ Mistress of the Dance
		Siwa began her dancing career as a member of the troupe Bahar, with which she earned her first two titles, as 1st Runner Up and then as the Winner of the Belly Dance Troupe of the Year at the Belly Dancer of the Year Contest.
		Siwa also takes special pride in the accomplishments of her students, including winner of the Belly Dancer of the Year competition in 1996 and two first and one third place finishes in the Rising Star category at Wiggles of the West in 2000.
		Siwa has also taken her art on the road, teaching seminars at Desert Dance Festival, MECDA and at Wiggles of the West in Reno, NV, as well as dancing for audiences as far away as Washington, Oregon, Michigan, and England.
	www.dcm-siwa.com /bio.html (386 words)

	Uncloned World -- 1001 Sights in the Siwa Oasis
		Siwa is a true oasis in the truest sense of the word, with plenty of bathing places, but it has also acted as a repository of ancient culture and cultures.
		Siwa's isolation is what gives it its charm, and local people have been fierce in fighting against the scourge of mass tourism.
		SiwaE½s nine sheikhs argue that mass tourism will destroy a unique and fragile Berber culture and are reluctant to increase the current annual influx of just 8,000 tourists.
	www.angelfire.com /id/croon/egypt/siwa.html (1640 words)

	www.siwaoasis.com * Siwa Oasis Index Page * (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Siwa, once the most mysterious of all Egypt's oases, is also the most fascinating.
		The modern town of Siwa is set among thick palm groves, walled gardens and olive orchards, with numerous freshwater springs and salt lakes.
		Siwa also clusters beneath the impressive remains of the ancient fortress town of Shali.
	www.siwaoasis.com /index.html (282 words)

	Siwa
		Alexander the Great went to Siwa in 331 BC to consult with the Oracle of Amoun, to ask if he was the son of Zeus.
		Visitors to Siwa are requested to respect their customs: women must cover their arms and legs, no display of affection is allowed, and no alcohol may be consumed in public.
		Siwa was such a change from Cairo: no beeping and the people didn't want anything from us, except to say hello.
	www.fortunecity.com /oasis/bahia/29/siwa.htm (1125 words)

	Siwa Oasis Travel Guide
		The Siwa Oasis is located between the Qattara Depression and the Egyptian Sand Sea in the Libyan Desert.
		Siwa is a small desert oasis village 350 miles west of cairo, Siwa is home to the ancient Temple of Ammon(Amun) where Alexander the Great came in 331 BC to consult the oracle.
		Siwa is the westernmost of the 5 major oases of Egypt and can be reached by car from Baharia or from Marsa Matruh, on the Mediterranean coast.
	www.justegypt.org /egypt/siwa (236 words)

	Siwa Oasis Sitting Pretty by Mona Fikki
		Siwa has attained priority on the government's development plan in light of its great tourist, economic and agricultural potential.
		Siwa produces a wide range of beautiful traditional handicrafts such as baskets made of palm fronds, dresses and silver jewellery.
		With the funding of the Italian government and the International Union for Conservation of Nature, Siwa Environmental Amelioration is a project for the conservation and sustainable management of the natural and cultural resources of Siwa.
	www.arabworldbooks.com /new/siwafiqi.html (976 words)

	Siwa Oasis - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Siwa Oasis (Arabic: واحة سيوة) is an oasis in Egypt, located between the Qattara Depression and the Egyptian Sand Sea in the Libyan Desert, approximately 50 km east of the Libyan border, and some 560 km from Cairo.
		Evidence of Christianity at Siwa is dubious, but in 708 the Siwans resisted an Islamic army, and probably did not convert until 12th century.
		The ancient fortress of Siwa, built of natural rock salt, mud brick and palm logs and known as the Shali Ghali ("Shali" for city, and "Ghali", dear), although now mostly abandoned, remains a prominent feature, towering five storeys above the modern town.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Siwa_Oasis (528 words)

	www.siwaoasis-eg.com * Siwa Oasis Index Page *
		Siwa, once the most mysterious of all Egypt's oases, is also the most fascinating.
		The modern town of Siwa is set among thick palm groves, walled gardens and olive orchards, with numerous freshwater springs and salt lakes.
		Siwa also clusters beneath the impressive remains of the ancient fortress town of Shali.
	www.haberlah.com /hosted/siwa (285 words)

	Tour Egypt presents the Siwa Oasis in Egypt
		With a population of about 23,000, Siwa, the most inaccessible of all Egypt's oasis until very recently, is also one of the most fascinating, lying some 60 feed below sea level..
		The area has a nice climate, chilly in winter, hot in the summer and moderate in the spring and autumn.
		Lake Siwa to the west of the town of is a large, saltwater lake.
	www.touregypt.net /siwaoas.htm (574 words)

	Platform - wireless providers, customer access worldwide, CDMA network software.
		SIWA is based on open standards (IS95/IS2000, IS41, GSM MAP, TCP/IP) and uses existing messaging and processes already implemented in the network.
		The SIWA ID is used to securely identify an activating device and the SIWA key is used as a shared secret between the device and the ISM for authentication and data encryption.
		Finally, since the SIWA client is integrated with existing device code, there is no requirement to load the SIWA client separately from the other device software during the manufacturing process.
	www.telespree.com /platform/siwa.htm (481 words)

	Egypt: Siwa and Alexandria
		It was however very sad to see the cemeteries of the soldiers, most of whom were in their late teens when they attained martyrdom.
		Siwa oasis is the westernmost of all oasis in Egypt lying at the edge of the great Saharan sand sea.
		Siwa is a very poor town where hooting of car horns is replaced with braying of donkey carts.
	www.travel-notes.org /siwa.html (752 words)

	Alexander in the Oasis of Siwa
		Alexander's visit to the Oracle of Ammon at Siwa was, and still is considered as one of the most fascinating events of his reign.
		It was so widely publicized in antiquity, that king Lysimachos of Thrace, one of Alexander's successors, struck one of the first issues of posthumous silver tetradrachms in the name of Alexander, featuring the portrait of the Macedonian king on the obverse, bearing the horns of Ammon on his head.
		Another interesting point that in Plutarch's account of Alexander's visit to the Ammoneion of Siwa, the author relates that historians before him had already challenged the accuracy of the alleged proclamation of Alexander as son of Ammon by the priests and had suggested their own interpretation of the disturbing rumors on the Macedonian king's divinity.
	www.greece.org /alexandria/alexander/Pages/siwa.html (1221 words)

	Siwa Oasis, Egypt. Travel guide & tourist information by Hostelbookers.com
		Travelling from Siwa to Bahariya or on other roads across the most desolate tracts of the Western Desert, spare a thought for the luckless soldiers at the checkpoints, marooned there for forty days at a stretch, with only each other and a pet cat or dog for company.
		Siwa's population seems to have been at risk from predatory desert tribes, so their first settlement was a fortified acropolis, about which Classical accounts reveal little about this beyond its name, Aghurmi, and its position as a major caravan stop between Cyrenaica and Sudan.
		Visitors to Siwa Oasis no longer require military permission, unless they wish to travel to the remoter oases of Qara, Areg, Bahrein or Sitra; permission for these trips can be obtained from Military Intelligence in Siwa itself.
	www.hostelbookers.com /guides/egypt/siwa_oasis (306 words)

	www.siwaoasis.com * Siwa Oasis - Safari Page * (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		There are many different safari guides in Siwa who will take you on an adventure into the desert.
		Siwa is a small and close-knit community so it is very safe and you can trust the guides.
		All the tours and guides in Siwa are of a very similar quality and their prices are also very similar.
	www.siwaoasis.com /siwa_safaris.html (239 words)

	et - Full Story
		Less than 75 kilometers from the Libyan border as the crow flies, Siwa is a sizable island of greenery in the Great Sand Sea.
		One of Siwa’s endearing traits is its size: This laid-back village is tiny, and over the course of a day you’ll probably meet most of the tourists in gardens, restaurants and historic sites around the oasis.
		The spring, contained in a concrete pool, is not particularly scenic, but the steamy soak beneath the stars cannot be beat.
	www.egypttoday.com /article.aspx?ArticleID=6632 (742 words)

	Siwa: UNESCO-CI
		Egypt, North-western desert, Siwa Oasis, several isolated villages in the western oasis
		Siwa is the language of an ethnic group Siwa living in the oasis of Siwa in Egypt.
		They form the westernmost living group of speakers of a Berber language.
	portal.unesco.org /ci/en/ev.php-URL_ID=9747&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html (96 words)

	IFC Environment - Recent Highlights - Siwa Receives 2006 World Business Award
		Siwa is the largest oasis in Egypt and is located about 70 kilometers east of the Libyan border.
		The Egyptian Government declared it a protected area in 2002 to stress the importance of the Siwa ecosystem as part of a network of interconnected wildlife refuges.
		With the support of three IFC programs, including the Environmental Business Finance Program (EBFP), US$1.9 million in loans and grants were provided to EQI to conserve the Siwa Oasis by revitalizing traditional knowledge and practices that sustainably use Siwa's biodiversity, and in so doing, contribute to cultural preservation, bringing benefits to its indigenous community.
	www.ifc.org /ifcext/enviro.nsf/Content/EBFP_Highlights_Siwa (272 words)

	IFC GBI - SIWA
		The oasis in SIWA is the largest in Egypt.
		The majesty of this natural wonder where lush vegetation, majestic sand lakes and hundreds of freshwater springs abound - is sadly cut off from the rest of the country by insufficient infrastructure.
		This cottage industry was designed to allow its female participants to generate income by working from their homes, to create beautifully embroidered clothing, jewelry and personal accessories for sale domestically and internationally.
	www.ifc.org /ifcext/gbo.nsf/Content/SIWA (262 words)

	Pyramid Arabians bring you a small selection of photographs from the little known Oasis of Siwa
		Located far into the western desert of Egypt, Siwa Oasis borders the only land entry to Libya.
		The people of Siwa hold fast to their traditions and culture while all round them progress threatens their very existence.
		Siwa town is a maze of tunnel-like alleyways and houses of sun dried brick.
	www.pyramidarabians.com /news/siwa/siwa2.htm (247 words)

	Siwa Oasis
		leaves at 1:30PM, arrive to Siwa, meet our representative, check-in and overnight at hotel.
		Then enjoy watching the sunset from the highest place around Siwa, having dinner around the fire.
		The transfer from (Matrouh / Siwa) + (Matrouh / Cairo) will coast together (US $ 15), will be paid by the client.
	www.angelfire.com /biz2/egyptonline/siwa.html (258 words)

	NOVICA - 'Dewa Siwa,' statuette
		Hands held in meditative prayer, Dewa Siwa (god Siwa) ponders on spiritual benevolence as he sits on a lotus bud.
		In his other two hands he holds a lotus flower and a whip, symbols of his divine origin and power.
		Nyoman Suwita reveals his presence through delicate hand-carved artistry on ebony, detailing Siwa's attire and crown with sublime finesse.
	www.novica.com /itemdetail/index.cfm?pID=58887 (306 words)

	Siwa Safari - Minamar Hotel - Bahariya oasis Egypt
		Upon reaching Siwa 300-km, We tour the old Siwan village of Shalli.
		01 Night in Siwa Oasis at Siwa Inn Based on Half-Board basis.
		We inform the Egyptian ministry of tourism about the program details for the formal papers, guest's safety and convoy.
	www.minamar.com /siwa_safari.htm (423 words)

	Siwa Transportation - Travel Guide - VirtualTourist.com
		The track from Siwa to Bahariya was most of the time rather good, but sometimes we had to cross a lot of loose sand.
		Going back from Siwa to Alexandria (there are no direct buses to Cairo) it was not possible to buy the ticket until the evening before, after 8 pm.
		Try to be at Siwa by the day to check out the hotel room, etc. Late-night arrival is not to say dangerous but perhaps makes it difficult to find a good place to stay and sleep.
	www.virtualtourist.com /travel/Africa/Egypt/Muhafazat_Matruh/Siwa-2003747/Transportation-Siwa-BR-1.html (863 words)

	Siwa Safari Paradise Hotel - Siwa Oasis - Western Desert of Egypt
		Siwa Safari Paradise Hotel - Siwa Oasis - Western Desert of Egypt
		Siwa Paradise Hotel is located in the heart of Egypt's Western Desert in one of the most beautiful spots "Siwa Oasis".
		Siwa Oasis has a nice climate, chilly in winter, hot in the summer and moderate in the spring and autumn.
	www.siwaparadise.com (72 words)

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