8 sentences with 'coast'
Example sentences and phrases with the word coast and other words derived from it.
• « These beliefs still abound today on the west coast of Africa and in the Suan, south of the Sahara and also in the Congo. »
• « The Greeks founded colonies on the North African coast and on the islands of the Mediterranean, especially Sicily. »
• « When Julius Caesar was busy conquering Gaul some 700 years later, he found the Celts there writing in the Greek alphabet, which he had long ago learned from Greek colonies along the coast. »
• « He continued to sail along the coast of France, trading and noting the cultures of the people he encountered. »
• « During the heyday of the Roman Empire, from about AD 1 to 200, it was possible to travel from the Atlantic coast of Spain or Morocco to Mesopotamia using good roads, speaking a common language and enjoying official protection against banditry. »
• « Eventually, Tiberius retired to a private estate on the island of Capri (off the west coast of Italy). »
• « For a time, the southern coast of Arabia was ruled by Persia through Arab clients, and Persia was clearly an important cultural influence (so great was the renown of the Persian Great King Khusrau that his name became the root of an Arabic word for king: kisra). »