sudan
IPA: sudˈæn
Root Word: Sudan
noun
- A country in North Africa and East Africa.
- Turkish Sudan; autonym Turkiyyah; Sudan under the Eyalet of Egypt, from 1820 to 1885
- Mahdist State, also known as Mahdist Sudan or the Sudanese Mahdiyya, from 1885 to 1898
- Anglo-Egyptian Sudan, a condominium of the United Kingdom and Egypt from 1899 to 1955
- Republic of the Sudan, since 1955
- A climatic zone characterized by savannas and mosaic forests running in a belt just south of the Sahel in West and East Africa
- (historical) Mali (when it was under French colonial rule as Soudan).
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Examples of "sudan" in Sentences
- It is semiarid savanna in the north of Sudan.
- The reality of the Sudan is fairly straightforward.
- The conditions of slavery in Sudan are doubly edged.
- Turkey wants to mediate between Sudan and South Sudan.
- It is semiarid East Sudanian savanna in north near Sudan.
- The outdoor life is one of the fundamental activities in Sudan.
- The Commission didn't willfully and under no duress appoint Sudan.
- He was at the same time made British consular agent for the Sudan.
- NGO's working in the villages of Sudan tried to rectify the damage.
- Is Ashanti remotely comparable to the civilizations of the Sudanic belt