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DARFUR
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
An impoverished region of western Sudan
Example:
Darfur was a semi-independent sultanate until 1917 and is ethnically distinct from central Sudan
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Instance hypernyms:
district; dominion; territorial dominion; territory (a region marked off for administrative or other purposes)
Holonyms ("Darfur" is a part of...):
Republic of the Sudan; Soudan; Sudan (a republic in northeastern Africa on the Red Sea; achieved independence from Egypt and the United Kingdom in 1956)
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