Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2001 10:34:48 -0800
Subject: Re: any idea?


Robert is right about Al Sudan...  Some countries are "The..." others are
not. ... Ethiopia for example is Al Habashi, Egypt on the other hand is just
Musr. no Al... 

M


>> 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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