The word Bedouin (bedw) is referred to the habitants of Badia (al-badia, in arabic), a place where it is possible to practice the nomad shepherding. This word can be translated it as” desert” (as a guidance only). Al-badia is an idea containing a meaning related to a more ecologic and human nature than a geological or geographic concept.
In fact, its definition tells us a place where Bedouins keep a certain way of life, which consists of the adaptation to an extreme ecological niche. The desert–like area of the Syrian territory is a combination between deserts and steppes, exactly in the area where the Bedouins, shepherds of camels, goats and sheep’s, live.
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