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Britannica article "Baggāra". The Baggāra (Arabic: البَقَّارَة, romanized: al
baqqāra "heifer herder"), also
known as
Chadian Arabs, are a
nomadic confederation...
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Kirad al-
Baqqara (Arabic: كراد البقارة) was a
Palestinian Arab
village in the
Safad Subdistrict. It was depo****ted
during the 1947–1948
Civil War in...
- livestock.
Sudanese cattle are of two prin****l varieties:
Baqqara and Nilotic. The
Baqqara and two
subvarieties constitute the
majority of the country’s...
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their herding neighbors, the
Baqqara (Baggara) Arabs. Culturally,
those cattle-herding Fur are now
considered to be
Baqqara. The Fur are
nominally ****...
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hands of the
British and Egyptians.
Abdullah was born into the Ta'aisha
Baqqara tribe c. 1846 in Um
Dafuq and was
trained and
educated as a
preacher and...
- Wadi
Mushayrifa ran
between the two
Kirad villages (al-Ghannama and al-
Baqqara) and Wadi
Waqqas supplied the
village with its
water requirements. The...
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Abdallahi achieved unchallenged supremacy, with the help
primarily of the
Baqqara Arabs. Abdallahi's new rule
demanded a
legitimating principle. Some of...
- the
native language of
nomadic cattle herders (baggāra,
Standard Arabic baqqāra بَقَّارَة,
means 'cattlemen', from baqar). In 1913, a
French colonial administrator...
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Efforts to
suppress the
slave trade angered the
urban merchant class and the
Baqqara Arabs, who had
grown prosperous by
selling slaves.
Khartoum was expanded...
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Italian NCOs 2,526
native soldiers Mahdi troops: 2,500
Mahdist infantry 600
Baqqara cavalry Casualties and
losses 28
killed 41
wounded 1,400 dead & wounded...
