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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Wally: [QB] The colonial Arabic name for Africa was "Bled asSud" (bee.lahdt ah.swad.uh) which means simply, "Black man's land"... The "Sudan" did not just consist of the modern state of Sudan, but all of the states and territories that the Arabs were trying to subjugate; ie, Ghana, Mali, Timbuktu, Songhai...referred to by European scholars as "the Western Sudan" The Sudan (Africa) wasn't named after any Arab tribe! The Arab conquest of Egypt would ultimately come to serve as their base, where Cairo would become the Capital of the Arab empire. This "Sudan" or Egypt would be stripped of its language and culture, and colonized... ... "bilad as sudan" or more accurately "bilad as suten" means in the [b]original African[/b] language "The Land of the Kings" - Black, King, Royal, and Ruler were synonyms in antiquity... [/QB][/QUOTE]
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