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- proper noun A region in central and western
Africa including present-daySudan - proper noun by extension All inland regions of Africa inhabited by
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Examples
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The fecond contains what is now called Nigritia or Ncgroland.
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The expedition began unfortunately, by the loss of outfit and instruments in the "Nigritia," wrecked off Sierra Leone: it persevered, however, and presently met Dr. Bastian and Professor von Gorschen at Cabinda.
Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo Volume 2 Richard Francis Burton 1855
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He then saw an apparition which ordered him not to march further into the country of King Baal – Beg, but to turn towards Abyssinia and Nigritia, adding, “Remain there, and choose it as thy residence, and assuredly one of thy race will arise through whom the threat of Noah shall be fulfilled.”
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Mahometan city of Nigritia, spoken of by Edrisi, he says that many of the
The Journal of a Mission to the Interior of Africa, in the Year 1805 2008
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Nigritia obeys the book of the Koran after bowing to the book of the Gospel.
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I believe it precisely as I believe that Persius was the founder of the kingdom of Persia and Niger of Nigritia.
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After twelve hours of progress, the Victoria found herself on the confines of Nigritia.
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The expedition began unfortunately, by the loss of outfit and instruments in the “Nigritia,” wrecked off Sierra
Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo 2003
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Christian era, the Moors, from Barbary, established an extensive traffic in the cities of Nigritia, where they bought large numbers of slaves; and the merchants of Seville brought slaves from the western coast of Africa, and established slavery in that city, and in
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The Senegal, up to the small Moorish state of Gedumah, is the line of division between the Mohammedans and the Negroes: from thence the line passes eastward of north, through Nigritia and Nubia to the Nile.
History of the Moors of Spain M. Florian
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