The Oasis (Arizona Newspaper)
An oasis is an isolated area of vegetation in a desert. Oasis, OASIS, or The Oasis may also refer to: Places Africa * Oasis (Casablanca), a neighborhood of Casablanca, Morocco * Oasis crater, Libya United States * Oasis, Iowa * Oasis, Nevada * Oasis, New Mexico * Oasis, Utah * Oasis, Wisconsin California * Oasis, Mendocino County, California * Oasis, Mono County, California * Oasis, Riverside County, California Other places * Antarctic oasis, a large area naturally free of snow and ice in the otherwise ice-covered continent of Antarctica * Illinois Tollway oasis, a type of highway rest area * Urban oasis, an open space in an urban setting Arts, entertainment, and media Fictional entities * Oasis, a character from the webcomic ''Sluggy Freelance'' * Ontologically Anthropocentric Sensory Immersive Simulation (OASIS), a virtual reality simulator accessible by players in the novel '' Ready Player One'' Films * ''Oasis'' (1955 film), a French adventure film * ''Oasis'' ...
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In ecology, an oasis (; ) is a fertile area of a desert or semi-desert environment'ksar''with its surrounding feeding source, the palm grove, within a relational and circulatory nomadic system.” The location of oases has been of critical importance for trade and transportation routes in desert areas; caravans must travel via oases so that supplies of water and food can be replenished. Thus, political or military control of an oasis has in many cases meant control of trade on a particular route. 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 Trans-Saharan trade, trade in the Sahara Desert. The location of oases also informed the Darb El Arba'īn trade route from Sudan to Egypt, as well as the caravan route from the Niger River to Tangier, Morocco. The Silk Road “traced its course from water hole to water hole, relying on oasis communities such as Turpan in China and Sam ...
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