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  States of Central Africa
Bornu is one of the most powerful states of Negroland; extending on the west to the 10th degree of long., on the east to Lake Chad and the kingdom of Baghermi, and on the south as far as Mandara and Adamaua, in about 11° N. lat.
Each man is independent of every other." To the south of the unknown region are the powerful Negro kingdoms of the Muata Yanvo and of the Cazembe, occupying the whole of the interior between 6° and 12° S. lat.
The Makololo kingdom, occupying the central basin of the Zambeze river, with the chief town of Linyanti, west of the Victoria Falls; and that of Mosilikatse in the south-east, between the Zambeze and the Limpopo rivers, are the great remaining divisions of central Africa.
www.1902-encyclopedia.com /A/AFR/africa-33.html   (1125 words)

  
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PANDYA Pandya, Chola, and Chera were three kingdoms in the south of the Peninsula for some centuries before and after the Christian era.
Pandya was well known to the Romans as the kingdom of King Pandion, who is said to have sent ambassadors on two different occasions to Augustus Caesar.
Pa1ldya seems to have fallen under the ascendancy of the Chola kings in the seventh or eighth century.
www.mypurohith.com /Encyclopedia/EnclopP.asp   (2267 words)

  
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In this incarnation of Vishnu, in order to save the World, he took the form of a giant Turtle and got underneath the Mandara Mountain which was sinking into the sea.
" Abiding his teachings, and following their King all the inhabitants of the Kuru Kingdom gave gifts and performed good works and at the end of their lives went to swell the hosts of Heaven!"......
and bear in mind that "present in the body" simply means "Conscious" while "absent from the body" means "Unconscious" referring to our "Out-of-body Experiences" in the Dream Realm....which is the Kingdom of God...
electric.dreamofpeace.net /ed5-3.txt   (16368 words)

  
 African Culture - Society on the Internet
Site for ethnographers, on the northern Mandara mountains of North Cameroon and North East Nigeria.
Has a bibliography on the ethnography of the Northern Mandaras which includes journal articles and Ph.D. theses, a detailed list (with literature sources) and map of the ethnic units and sub-units, a bibliography, research issues, and photographs.
"the parastatal organisation responsible for the conservation of nature and the cultural heritage of the Kingdom of Swaziland." On biodiversity, nature reserves, the programmes operated by the organisation, and legislation on conservation.
www-sul.stanford.edu /depts/ssrg/africa/culture.html   (5190 words)

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