Dongola

[ dong-guh-luh ]

noun

1. a former province in the N Sudan, now part of Northern Province.

Dongola

/ ˈdɒŋɡələ /

noun

1. a small town in the N Sudan, on the Nile: built on the site of Old Dongola, the capital of the Christian Kingdom of Nubia (6th to 14th centuries). Pop: 16 900 (2001 est)

Example Sentences

All men who attended had a head-dress made of the leaf petiole of the betel tree and the red leaves of the dongola plant.

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Dull dongola are first tawed and then retanned in gambier liquor.

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These horses appear to have come from the vicinity of Dongola, and the strain still survives in the Sudan.

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An expedition was sent out in 1896, which captured Dongola in September and defeated the dervish force in several engagements.

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But Dongola was not the high place of the enemy; it was not there that Gordon died or that Abdullahi was still alive.

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