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Eclipse maps courtesy of Fred Espenak, NASA/GSFC are here at Annular Solar Eclipse of 2005 October 03.

… an annular eclipse of the Sun will be visible from within a narrow corridor which traverses the Iberian Peninsula and stretches across the African continent. A partial eclipse will be seen within the much broader path of the Moon’s penumbral shadow, which includes Europe, western Asia, the Middle East, India and most of Africa.
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An annular eclipse differs from a total eclipse in that the Moon appears too small to completely cover the Sun. As a result, the Moon is surrounded by an intensely brilliant ring or annulus formed by the uneclipsed outer perimeter of the Sun’s disk. The solar corona is not visible during annular eclipses.