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Assuan

Assuan is the obsolete form of Aswan.

Meaning of Aswan

Proper noun

Aswan

  1. A governorate in southern Egypt.
  2. The capital of Aswan governorate, Egypt.

Questions about Assuan

What is Assuan the obsolete form of?
Assuan is the obsolete form of Aswan.

Words near Assuan in the dictionary

  1. assuagest
  2. assuageth
  3. assuaging
  4. assuagingly
  5. assuagings
  6. Assuan
  7. assuasive
  8. assuasively
  9. assuasives
  10. assubjugate
  11. assubjugated

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Assuan (page history and authors); Aswan (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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