On August 4, 1914, Germany invaded Belgium, leaving Moresnet at first " an oasis in a desert of destruction ".

While at the oasis of Takedda on his journey back across the desert, he received a message from the Sultan of Morocco commanding him to return home.

Stein discovered manuscripts in the previously lost Tocharian languages of the Tarim Basin at Marin and other oasis towns, and recorded numerous archaeological sites especially in Iran and Balochistan.

For example, the oases of Awjila, Ghadames and Kufra, situated in modern-day Libya, have at various times been vital to both North-South and East-West trade in the Sahara. The Huacachina oasis in Ica, Peru

Any incidence of water is then used by migrating birds who also pass seeds with their droppings which will grow at the water's edge forming an oasis.

This began in the 19th century with such events as the Panjdeh Incident, a military skirmish that occurred in 1885 when Russian forces seized Afghan territory south of the Oxus River around an oasis at Panjdeh.

This mythic element says that the oracles at the oasis of Siwa in Libya and of Dodona in Epirus were equally old, but similarly transmitted by Phoenician culture, and that the seeresses — Herodotus does not say " sibyls " — were women.

By the end of the next decade, the 1860s, Grantsville had become a largely self-sufficient oasis of orchards and shade trees at the edge of the Territory's western deserts.

Tucson occupies a large oasis at the western end of the El Paso-Tucson corridor.

Chapter 14 gives the best modern account of Alexander's visit to the oasis at Siwah, with some background material on the Greek conception of Sibyls.

Although the oasis is known to have been settled since at least the 10th millennium BC, the earliest evidence of connection with ancient Egypt is the 26th Dynasty, when a necropolis was established.

Greek settlers at Cyrene made contact with the oasis around the same time ( 7th century BC ), and the oracle temple of Amun ( Greek: Zeus Ammon ), who, Herodotus was told, took the image here of a ram.

A local manuscript mentions only seven families totaling 40 men living at the oasis in 1203.

The Mogao Caves or Mogao Grottoes (), also known as the Caves of the Thousand Buddhas (), form a system of 492 temples southeast of the center of Dunhuang, an oasis strategically located at a religious and cultural crossroads on the Silk Road, in Gansu province, China.

He turned the Qumran-Ain Feshka oasis, like the one at En-Gedi, into crown property and incorporated his tenants into his strategic plans.

The oasis of Merv is situated on the Murghab River that flows down from Afghanistan, on the southern edge of the Karakum Desert, at 37 ° 30 ’ N and 62 ° E, about north of Herat, and south of Khiva.

For example, a bottle of booze picked up at the Karamoon oasis must be given to the goblin jailer to free Aarbron from his cell.

In 1930, Italy built a fort at Walwal, an oasis in the Ogaden.

The task of striking at the heavily defended oasis at Kufra was made all the more difficult by the use of inadequate transport to cross sand dunes and the rocky Fech Fech, considered to be impassable to vehicles.

In order to assist in the attack against Kufra, a raid was mounted against the airfield at the oasis of Murzuk, capital of the Fezzan region of Libya.

Negotiations to surrender began on February 28 and finally on March 1, 1941 the Free French captured El Tag and with it, the oasis at Kufra.

At 10: 30, the general mounted advance began and by midday, was on a line from west of Bir Nagid to south of Katib Gannit ; in the centre the New Zealand Mounted Rifles Brigade were approaching the south-west edge of the Katia oasis ; on their left the 1st, the 2nd Light Horse, the 5th Mounted Yeomanry Brigades and infantry in the 52nd ( Lowland ) Division were attacking Abu Hamra, to the north of the old caravan road, while the 3rd Light Horse Brigade was away to the New Zealander's right, south of the old caravan road, attacking German and Ottoman units at Bir el Hamisah.

British Empire forces camped at the Oghratina oasis

* Egypt – petrified forest in Cairo-Suez road, declared a national protectorate by the minstery of environment, also in the area of New Cairo at the Extension of Nasr city, El Qattamiyya, near El Maadi district, and Al Farafra oasis.

** The Tarim Mummies, a series of mummies which have been excavated at Niya, an oasis in the Tarim Basin.

Recent research with help of GIS database have provided a fine-grained analysis of the ancient oasis of Niya on the Silk Road.

It also was the terminus for caravans coming from Kashmir via Ladakh and then over the Karakoram Pass to the oasis of Niya in the Tarim Basin.

The territory of Turkmenistan has been populated since ancient times, especially the areas near oasis of Merv, where traces of human settlements have been found.

Its fame lies primarily in its ancient role as the home to an oracle of Amon, the ruins of which are a popular tourist attraction which gave the oasis its ancient name Ammonium.

The bottom ( using radar ) is the rock layer underneath, revealing black channels cut by the meandering of an ancient river that once fed the oasis. then the rain came and it flooded and it raind cats and dogs

The ancient oasis of rivers, lakes, reed marshes, forests and farms are drying up and being poisoned by wind-borne salt as well as fertilizer and pesticide residues from the dried bed of the Aral Sea.

The Nabataeans, also Nabateans ( ), were ancient peoples of North Arabia, whose oasis settlements in AD 37 – c. 100, gave the name of Nabatene to the borderland between Arabia and Syria, from the Euphrates to the Red Sea.

This is one of the best preserved oasis cities on the ancient silk route.

Loulan or Kroran was an ancient kingdom based around an important oasis city already known in the 2nd century BCE on the north-eastern edge of the Lop Desert.

The oasis of Hotan is strategically located at the junction of the southern ( and most ancient ) branch of the famous “ Silk Route ” joining China and the West with one of the main routes from ancient India and Tibet to Central Asia and distant China.

Numerous archaeological finds and monuments in the foothills of Karatau and in Talas-Assin oasis show the antiquity of settlements in the Talas River valley, supporting Taraz ' claim to being the most ancient city in Kazakhstan.

The site which is in the vicinity of the oasis of Fayyum, midway between Dahshur and Meidum, and about 100 kilometres south of Cairo, is believed to be in the vicinity of the ancient city of Itjtawy ( the precise location of which remains unknown ), which served as the capital of Egypt during the 12th Dynasty.

Gaochang (), also called Qara-hoja or Kara-Khoja ( قاراھوجا in Uyghur ), is the site of an ancient oasis city built on the northern rim of the inhospitable Taklamakan Desert in Xinjiang, China.

The ancient city of Merv was an oasis city on the Silk Road.

Loulan or Kroran ( ), known to Russian archaeologists as Krorayina, was an ancient kingdom based around an important oasis city along the Silk Road already known in the 2nd century BCE on the north-eastern edge of the Lop Desert.

Guma ( Goma ) Town (; Pinyin: Gùmǎ Zhèn, Uyghur: گۇما بازىرى ), also known as Pishan Town ( Chinese: 皮山镇 ; pinyin: Píshān ) ( written 皮亢 Pikang in the Weilüe ) is an ancient oasis town on the main caravan route between Khotan and Karghalik and, in Han times, the route left from here to go to Arachosia ( Kandahar ) through Hunza.

It comprises farmlands, a 17th century farm house, out buildings and Victorian walled garden, and a 16th century chapel, forming an oasis of peace and tranquility, surrounded on three sides by ancient woodlands and the river Goyt which flows alongside.

Similarly to other ancient place names in Arabia, " Najran " may have originally been the name of the whole oasis including all towns and villages.

Lampadomancy was a popular method of divination in ancient Egypt, where diviners would perform it at midday in a darkened room illuminated by a single lamp filled with oasis oil.

A major eight-lane highway was recently completed, linking Abqaiq to Dhahran, Dammam, and al-Khobar, as well as the oasis city of Hofuf, another major city in the Eastern Province known for its ancient caves, pottery works, and gold souqs.

Tadmur (; also spelled, Tadmor ; ancient Palmyra ) is a city in central Syria, administratively part of the Homs Governorate, located in an oasis 215 km northeast of Damascus and 180 km southwest of the Euphrates at Deir ez-Zor in the middle of the Syrian Desert.

It was an ancient center of worship created by the founders of the oasis city of Chinguetti in the Adrar region of Mauritania in the thirteenth or fourteenth century.