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  Hadendoa - LoveToKnow 1911
Although the official capital of the Hadendoa country is Miktinab, the town of Fillik on an affluent of the Atbara is really their headquarters.
Osman Digna, one of the best-known chiefs during the Madhia, was a Hadendoa, and the tribe contributed some of the fiercest of the dervish warriors in the wars of 1883-98.
So determined were they in their opposition to the Anglo-Egyptian forces that the name Hadendoa grew to be nearly synonymous with "rebel." But this was the result of Egyptian misgovernment rather than religious enthusiasm; for the Hadendoa are true Beja, and Mahommedans only in name.
www.1911encyclopedia.org /Hadendoa   (273 words)

  
  Hadendoa at AllExperts
The language of the Hadendoa is a dialect of Bedawi, a Cushitic Afro-Asiatic language.
Sunni Islam is the religion of the Hadendoa.
Osman Digna, one of the best-known chiefs during the Madhia, was a Hadendoa, and the tribe contributed some of the fiercest of the dervish warriors in the wars of 1883-1898.
en.allexperts.com /e/h/ha/hadendoa.htm   (368 words)

  
 HADENDOA (from Beja Ha... - Online Information article about HADENDOA (from Beja Ha...
HADENDOA (from Beja Hada, chief, and endowa, people)
Osman Digna, one of the best-known chiefs during the Madhia, was a Hadendoa, and the tribe contributed some of the fiercest of the See also:
enthusiasm; for the Hadendoa are true Beja, and Mahommedans only in name.
encyclopedia.jrank.org /GUI_HAN/HADENDOA_from_Beja_Hada_chief_a.html   (386 words)

  
  Hadendoa - SudanWiki   (Site not responding. Last check: )
The language of the Hadendoa is a dialect of Bedawi, a Cushitic Afro-Asiatic language.
The Hadendoa are traditionally a pastoral people, ruled by a hereditary chief who, in colonial times, was directly responsible to the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan government.
Osman Digna, one of the best-known chiefs during the Mahdia, was a Hadendoa, and the tribe contributed some of the fiercest of the dervish warriors in the wars of 1883-1898.
www.sudanwiki.org /index.php?title=Hadendoa   (253 words)

  
 Fuzzy wuzzy   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Fuzzy Wuzzy was the term used by British colonial soldiers for the nineteenth century Hadendoa warriors supporting the Sudanese Mahdi.
One of these, the Hadendoa, was nomadic along Sudan's Red Sea coast and provided a large number of cavalry and mounted infantry(called jehadiya).
The first line, "...was a bear" translates roughly as "The Hadendoa warriors gave us (British) a great deal of trouble." The second line is odd as the "Fuzzy Wuzzy" were in fact well-known for their full heads of wooly hair.
encyclopedia.vestigatio.com /Fuzzy_wuzzy   (459 words)

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