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Darfur

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Noun

1. darfur

an impoverished region of western Sudan

Example Sentences:
'Darfur was a semi-independent sultanate until 1917 and is ethnically distinct from central Sudan'

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Darfur

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noun
a region of W Sudan; an independent kingdom until conquered by Egypt in 1874; since 2003 conflict between the Janjaweed and rebel groups has left hundreds of thousands dead and homeless

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Darfur

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former administrative region of W Sudan: a sultanate in the early 19th cent.

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Darfur

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A region of western Sudan. Originally an independent sultanate, the area fell to the Egyptians in 1874 and later to the British. Under independent Sudan, the region has been the site of continuing ethnic conflict that developed into a major humanitarian crisis that began in 2003.

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