Sudan lietuviškai

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• a republic in northeastern Africa on the Red Sea; achieved independence from Egypt and the United Kingdom in 1956
• a republic in northeastern Africa on the Red Sea; achieved independence from Egypt and the United Kingdom in 1956; involved in state-sponsored terrorism
• a region of northern Africa to the south of the Sahara and Libyan deserts; extends from the Atlantic to the Red Sea
• A republic in eastern Africa, south of EGYPT and west of ETHIOPIA. Its capital is Khartoum. It was under Egypt 1820-82, then jointly administered by Egypt and Great Britain after 1899 as the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan. It gained independence in 1956. The name is of Arabic origin, balad as-sudan: bal (land) + al (as) (the) + sudan (black), the land of the blacks, the name given originally by Arabian travelers. (From Webster's New Geographical Dictionary, 1988, p1161&Room, Brewer's Dictionary of Names, 1992, p524)