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ghat
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Ghat or Gat (both: gät), walled town, SW Libya, in an oasis in the Sahara, near the Algerian border. It formerly was an important caravan center. Ghat was captured by the Ottoman Turks in 1875, by the Italians in 1930, and by the French in 1943, during World War II.
ghat in India
1. a mountain pass or mountain range
2. a place of cremation


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