The Rasulids kept the southerncoastunderloosecontrolup to Dhofar, evenholding Hadramawt to some extent and maintaining an antipirate squadron. — Encyclopæ dia Britannica.
In the southernhemisphere the flow of airaround a low-pressure system is clockwise.
The grenadelike munitions, tens of thousands of which have been found in southernLebanon, have caused 30 deaths and 180 injuriesamongcivilians since the end of the war, according to the United NationsMineAction Service.
As the isthmus disappeared at the close of the 17th century, the rivercontinued to erode the islandheadward and build it up at its downstream end, so that the western and southernshores where the firstsettlement had been built, were partlydestroyed.
The generaldevised an intelligent strategy for the southerncampaign.