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Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2001 09:55:38 +0200
Subject: Re: any idea?


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Saeed - as simple, surely, as this:  Sudanese call their country Al-Sudan/ As-Sudan - The Sudan. (the original Arabic name was Bilad as-Sudan, Land of the Blacks )...
robert

>>> saeed.urrehman-AT-anu.edu.au 12/20/01 08:40AM >>>
greg, do you have any idea why "Sudan,"  a country, is referred to as "the
Sudan"?

saeed



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