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Definition of Dongola
1. n. A government of Upper Egypt.
Definition of Dongola
1. Proper noun. The capital of the state of Northern, Sudan. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Dongola
1. a type of leather [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Dongola
| donepezil doner doner kebab doner kebabs doners doney donga dongas donged dongers | donging dongle dongles dongola dongolas dongs donharrisite doni doning donings | donjon donjons donk donk bet donk bets donk betting donked donkey |
Literary usage of Dongola
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Literature of Egypt and the Soudan from the Earliest Times to the Year by Ibrahim-Hilmy (1887)
"449—Lord Wolseley's Steamer rounding the bend in the Rapids of the First Cataract,
p. 452—With the 1st Sussex Regiment from the Second Cataract to Dongola, ..."
2. A Journey to Central Africa: Or, Life and Landscapes from Egypt to the Negro by Bayard Taylor (1862)
"OLD Dongola AND NEW Dongola. Appearance of the Country—Korti—The Town of ...
Agriculture—Old Dongola—The Palace-Mosque of the Nubian Kings—A Panorama of ..."
3. Letters from Egypt, Ethiopia, and the Peninsula of Sinai by Richard Lepsius (1853)
"Yesterday, after sailing three days from Old Dongola, we at length reached New
Dongola, usually only called by the Arabs EL OBDE (the Camp); ..."
4. Egypt by James Carlile McCoan, Wilfred C. Lay (1902)
"Of the great group of provinces thus collectively named, Dongola, the first, ...
Some miles above Old Dongola, the former capital of the province, ..."
5. The New American Cyclopaedia: A Popular Dictionary of General Knowledge by George Ripley, Charles Anderson Dana (1859)
"Dongola, a province of upper Nubia, on the Nile, between lat, 18° and 19° 30' N.
; length, about 150 m. ; breadth equal only to the strip of alluvial land ..."
6. The Egyptian Soudan, Its Loss and Its Recovery by Henry Stamford Lewis Alford, William Dennistoun Sword (1898)
"Before starting there was another medical inspection, and forty more men were
weeded out and conveyed the rest of the way to Dongola on ..."
7. Our Sudan: Its Pyramids and Progress by John Ward (1905)
"Dongola, known by the natives as YA Orde (the camp), is marked New Dongola on
tht; map,1 to distinguish it from Old Dongola, about 90 miles further south ..."
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