The Cambridge History of the British Empire, Volume 8John Holland Rose, Arthur Percival Newton, Ernest Alfred Benians, Henry Dodwell The University Press, 1963 - Great Britain |
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... Arabs swept in ; they conquered all the northern parts of Africa from the Red Sea to the Atlantic and Spain and cut off the westerners from access to both sides of Africa . They held some of the chief centres of learning , and ruled ...
... Arabs swept in ; they conquered all the northern parts of Africa from the Red Sea to the Atlantic and Spain and cut off the westerners from access to both sides of Africa . They held some of the chief centres of learning , and ruled ...
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John Holland Rose, Arthur Percival Newton, Ernest Alfred Benians, Henry Dodwell. ARAB IGNORANCE OF THE SOUTH 75 Batuta thought that the Niger was the Nile , and for ages the Arabs believed in a western Nile flowing from the Mountains of ...
John Holland Rose, Arthur Percival Newton, Ernest Alfred Benians, Henry Dodwell. ARAB IGNORANCE OF THE SOUTH 75 Batuta thought that the Niger was the Nile , and for ages the Arabs believed in a western Nile flowing from the Mountains of ...
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... Arab settlement upon the coast of East Africa was at Magadoxo in what was to be Italian Somaliland , but in the fifteenth century the principal power upon the coast of the region , called by the Arabs and Portuguese " Zanguebar " , lay ...
... Arab settlement upon the coast of East Africa was at Magadoxo in what was to be Italian Somaliland , but in the fifteenth century the principal power upon the coast of the region , called by the Arabs and Portuguese " Zanguebar " , lay ...
Contents
CHAPTER I | 1 |
Southern African Rivers | 7 |
The Karoo and the Kalahari | 15 |
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