caravaneer

(ˌkærəvænˈɪə)

the person leading a caravan of camels

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(31.) Another autobiography by a Ladakhi caravaneer is Abdul Wahid Radhu's Caravane Tibetaine (Paris: Fayard, 1981).

"POINT OF DEPARTURE": FEMINIST LOCATIONS AND THE POLITICS OF TRAVEL IN INDIA

The caravaneer commercial bourgeoisie, which has always been composed of a certain percentage of Muslims, has grown less religiously homogenous, a potential source of friction which, so far, seems to have been contained in favour of a more desirable common interest: economic and political stability.

As of the 9th century A.D., way stations appeared in the area to tend to the needs of the caravaneers and their animals plying trans-Himalayan trade routes.

A historical account of modern social change in Ladakh (Indian Kashmir) with special attention paid to tourism

"If grain at your disposal is scarce, write me and I can load up 50,000 donkey (measures) and convey it by a caravaneer [Veenhof 1992, "at the earliest opportunity"] to Marl." But I, because I have relied on you, answered him saying: "Don't transport any grain to me; there is much of it here.

The king and I: a Mari king in changing perceptions

Shimea, groom of the chief of the caravaneers" (nt tpn dkm l-bb mn VIII sm" mr rb [prm]).

Sinai 357: a Northwest Semitic votive inscription to Tessob

These were nomads and farmers, seafarers and caravaneers, slaves and freemen, merchants and mercenaries, colonists and zealots.

Seeking a Poetics of the Fertile Crescent

(4.) "The Midianites are portrayed in these [biblical] traditions as nomadic sheep and camel herders, caravaneers, and raiders, ranging over a wide territory to the south and east of Canaan." The Oxford Encyclopedia of Archaeology in the Near East.

The political side of the Zimri-Cozbi affair

Having obtained some armed men from the rajah she takes hostage some caravaneers from Kec.