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118:زنگبار (Zangibār) meaning "The Coast of Blacks". The name was given by Persian navigators when they visited the area in the middle ages. Some of the greatest states of those considered part of Negroland were the
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131:the region of Guinea
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988:Greater Middle East
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88:region called Sudan
32:Negroland: A Memoir
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281:. Retrieved
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868:Cape Palmas
863:Ivory Coast
858:Slave Coast
711:Upper Egypt
681:Lower Nubia
676:Lower Egypt
651:Nile Valley
385:Congo Basin
380:Pool Malebo
159:Niger River
151:Slave Coast
147:Grain Coast
143:Herman Moll
77:West Africa
56:Geographer"
1105:Categories
968:Arab world
942:Yorubaland
853:Gold Coast
778:Maputaland
768:Nama Karoo
758:Thembuland
706:The Sudans
691:Nile Delta
656:Nile Delta
572:Madagascar
390:Chad Basin
358:Cape Lopez
245:2008-10-06
195:References
155:Gold Coast
1038:Negroland
958:Aethiopia
828:False Bay
505:Al-Habash
490:Serengeti
468:Kavirondo
61:Negroland
783:Highveld
773:Bushveld
741:Rhodesia
644:Ifriqiya
510:Barbaria
368:Igboland
171:See also
153:", and "
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104:Persians
71:, is an
69:Nigritia
18:Nigritia
661:Bashmur
619:Maghreb
550:Red Sea
363:Mayombe
338:Central
326:Regions
283:14 July
183:Sources
116:Persian
81:negroes
65:Nigrita
54:H. Moll
39:Nigrita
1053:Sahara
1013:MENASA
788:Fynbos
671:Darfur
373:Mbaise
330:Africa
222:, 1771
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100:Blacks
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1058:Sahel
751:South
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425:East
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