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Due to its strategic location at the mouth of the Bab el Mandeb gateway to the Red Sea and the Suez Canal, Djibouti also hosts various foreign military bases.
The major choke points include Bab el Mandeb, Strait of Hormuz, the Lombok Strait, the Strait of Malacca and the Palk Strait.
The departure of mankind from Africa to colonise the rest of the world involved them crossing the Straits of Bab el Mandab in the southern Red Sea and moving along the green coastlines around Arabia and thence to the rest of Eurasia.
* Bab el Mandeb, connecting the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden.
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strategic location on Horn of Africa along southern approaches to Bab el Mandeb and route through Red Sea and Suez Canal
Wracked with indecision, Barré moved his troops into the hills and formed a defensive line from Teboursouk through Medjez el Bab and ordered that anyone trying to pass through the line would be shot.
over Medjerda River near Medjez el Bab in Tunisia on the night of 26 November 1942.
In 964, in his Book of Fixed Stars, he called it al-Bakr (" the Sheep ") " of the southern Arabs "; he noted that the Cloud is not visible from northern Arabia and Baghdad, but can be seen at the strait of Bab el Mandeb ( 12 ° 15 ' N ), which is the southernmost point of Arabia.
The battalion headed for the British lines, but lost 266 men under constant German attack by the time they reached safety at Medjez el Bab.
After returning to Cairo, they headed to Port Said, Djibouti, and Aden, reaching Bab el Mandeb.
The ' Bou ' was a ridge dominating the Medjez el Bab to Tunis road.
It was one of the units in support of the Dukes 1st Battalion and the Queen's Lancashire Regiment at the Battle of Banana Ridge, over looking the Medjez el Bab plain, as the front part of a five mile wide divisional offensive to advance on Tunis.
* Bab el shams by Yousry Nasrallah
* Second World War: Defence of Escaut, St. Omer-La Bassée, Caen, North-West Europe 1940 ' 44, Medjez el Bab, Oued Zarga, North Africa 1942-43, Adrano, Sicily 1943, Termoli, Trigno, Sangro, Cassino II, Trasimene Line, Monte Ceco, Monte Spaduro, Senio, Argenta Gap, Italy 1943-45, Malta 1941-42, Rathedaung, Htizwe, Kohima, Naga Village, Chindits 1944, Burma 1943-45
* The Second World War: Defence of Escaut, Calais 1940, Cassel, Ypres-Comines Canal, Normandy Landing, Pegasus Bridge, Villers Bocage, Odon, Caen, Esquay, Bourguebus Ridge, Mont Pincon, Le Perier Ridge, Falaise, Antwerp, Hechtel, Nederrijn, Lower Maas, Roer, Ourthe, Rhineland, Reichswald, Kleve, Goch, Hochwald, Rhine, Ibbenbueren, Dreirwalde, Leese, Aller, North-West Europe 1940, 44-45, Egyptian Frontier 1940, Sidi Barrani, Beda Fomm, Mersa el Brega, Agedabia, Derna Aerodrome, Tobruk 1941, Sidi Rezegh 1941, Chor es Sufan, Saunnu, Gazala, Bir Hacheim, Knightsbridge, Defence of Alamein Line, Ruweisat, Fuka Airfield, Alam el Halfa, El Alamein, Capture of Haifaya Pass, Nofilia, Tebaga Gap, Enfidaville, Medjez el Bab, Kasserine, Thala, Fondouk, Fondouk Pass, El Kourzia, Djebel Kournine, Agroub el Megas, Tunis, Hamman Lif, North Africa 1940-43, Sangro, Salerno, Santa Lucia, Salerno Hills, Cardito, Teano, Monte Camino, Garigliano Crossing, Damiano, Anzio, Cassino II, Liri Valley, Melfa Crossing, Monte Rotondo, Capture of Perugia, Monte Malbe, Arezzo, Advance to Florence, Gothic Line, Coriano, Gemmano Ridge, Lamone Crossing, Orsara, Tossignano, Argenta Gap, Fossa Cembalina, Italy 1943-45, Veve, Greece 1941, 44, 45, Crete, Middle East 1941, Arakan Beaches, Tamandu, Burma 1943-44.
In 2004, Faudel made a comeback on cinema screens, starring in Merzak Allouache's film Bab el web alongside Samy Naceri and Julie Gayet.

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The total rebuilding of the city enclosure began when az-Zahir Ghazi removed the vallum of Nur ad-Din which by then outlived its temporary need and rebuilt the northern and northwestern walls the most susceptible to outside attack from Bab al-Jinan to Bab al-Nasr.
Originally designed to follow in the footsteps of Young's earlier " pretty girl " creations Beautiful Bab and Dumb Dora, Blondie focused on the adventures of Blondie Boopadoop a carefree flapper girl who spent her days in dance halls.
The Gilbert of The Bab Ballads, the Gilbert of whimsical conceit, inoffensive cynicism, subtle satire, and playful paradox ; the Gilbert who invented a school of his own, who in it was schoolmaster and pupil, who has never taught anybody but himself, and is never likely to have any imitator this is the Gilbert the public want to see, and this is the Gilbert who on Saturday night was cheered till the audience was weary of cheering any more.
), together with his brothers Bab and Tiran.

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According to his biographers, Dark and Grey, Gilbert also drew on some of his earlier verse, the Bab Ballads for some plot elements.
The plot and even some of the dialogue were lifted straight out of Gilbert's Bab Ballad " The Rival Curates.

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Dozens of Arab residents were killed at Place du Gouvernement when 24 mortar rounds were fired from the European stronghold of Bab el-Oued.
The pseudonymous Bab M ' Keen ( probably successive members of the Weir family: John Weir, William Weir, and Jack Weir ) provided comic commentaries in the Ballymena Observer and County Antrim Advertiser for over a hundred years from the 1880s.
According to Giulio Andreotti ( the 42nd Prime Minister of Italy ) and Abdel Rahman Shalgham ( Libya's Foreign Minister from 2000 until 2009 ), Craxi was the person who phoned Muammar al-Gaddafi to warn him of the impending Operation El Dorado Canyon air-strikes against Libya on 15 April 1986, permitting Gaddafi and his family to evacuate their residence in the Bab al-Azizia compound moments before the bombs dropped.
* Combined Task Force 150 that patrols from Hormuz, halfway across the Arabia Sea, South as far as the Seychelles, through the Gulf of Aden, up through the strait between Djibouti and Yemen known as the Bab Al Mandeb and into the Red Sea and, finally, around the Horn of Africa ;
Logar was known among Afghans as باب الجهاد ' Bab al-Jihad ', or ' the Gates of Jihad ' because it became a fierce theatre of war between Mujahideen groups and the Soviet army and it was the main supply route of Mujahideen coming from south and Pakistan and going towards Northern and Central Afghanistan.
The same account notes that a secondary account was to find a way to free the Bab from the prison of Chiriq,
The three other references are also recognizable ( the Bab Ballad was from 1869 or so ).
In 1473 Suwar was captured and led back to Cairo, together with his brothers ; the prisoners were drawn and quartered and their remains were hung from Bab Zuwayla.
In 1964 British experts advised the creation of a metro line from Bab El Louk to Shubra.
Beginning this work with the theatre company ' Théatre de la Mer ' from Bab El Oued in 1971, sponsored by the Ministère du Travail et des Affaires Sociales, Kateb traveled all over Algeria for five years, putting on plays for an audience of workers, farmers and students.
Category: People from Bab El Oued
The name Murwillumbah derives from an Aboriginal word meaning " camping place " – from Murrie, meaning " aboriginal people ", Wolli, " a camp "; and Bab, " the place of ".
He played the role of a young man from the Bab el Oued neighbourhood in Algiers.
The Sultan entered Cairo from the Victory Gate ( Bab al-Nasr ) and was greeted by the celebrating population, also with thousands of lighted candles. The Kingdom of Cilician Armenia, 1199 – 1375.
Al-Nasir Muhammed returned to Egypt amid overwhelming festivity, Cairo, which was full of people who came from all over Egypt to celebrate, was decorated from Bab al-Nasr ( Victory Gate ) to Qal ' at al-Jabal The prominent Egyptian Mamluk historian Baibars al-Dewadar was present at the battle of Marj al-Saffar ( also called the battle of Shaqhab ).
Its name comes from Bab, meaning " Door ", and Zuwayla, the name of a troop of fearsome Berber warriors from the western desert who were charged with guarding the gate.

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