Occurrence of Attributes in Original Text

The text related to the cultural heritage 'Um er-Rasas (Kastrom Mefa'a)' has mentioned 'Desert' in the following places:
Occurrence Sentence Text Source
It was once accessible by branches of the King's Highway, and is situated in the semi-arid steppe region of the Jordanian Desert.
[5] This road with its many branches facilitated travel, and Roman military encampments were set in place along the way as a defensive measure against barbarian assaults across the Roman desert frontier known as the Limes Arabicus.
Eusebius of Caesarea identified Mephaat as the camp site of a Roman army near the desert in his Onomasticon (K.128:21).
By the 4th century C.E., the advent of pilgrimage caused Palestine to become the nucleus of the Christian world, and scores of pious men and women traversed the desert seeking sites of scriptural significance as well as communion with their creator.
[8] The number of pilgrims intensified by the 5th century C.E., and many Christians chose to settle in the desert establishing monastic communities.
[12] Discontented with Byzantine control, local Arab-speaking tribesmen living in the desert expanses willingly aided the Muslim invaders easing their conquest.