See also:

• HADENDOA (from Beja Hada, chief, and endowa, people)

HADENDOA (from See also:

• BEJA (or BiJA)
• BEJA (probably the ancient Pax Julia)

Beja Hada, See also:

• CHIEF (from Fr. chef, head, Lat. caput)

chief, and endowa, See also:

• PEOPLE

people)  , a See also:

• NOMAD (Gr. voµas, voµabes, wandering)

nomad tribe of Africans of " Hamitic " origin . They inhabit that See also:

• PART

part of the eastern See also:

• SUDAN (Arabic Bilad-es-Sudan, country of the blacks)

Sudan extending from the Abyssinian frontier northward nearly to See also:

• SUAKIN, or SAWAKIN

Suakin . They belong to the See also:

• BEJA (or BiJA)
• BEJA (probably the ancient Pax Julia)

Beja See also:

• PEOPLE

people, of which, with the See also:

• BISHARIN (the anc. Ichthyophagi)

Bisharin and the See also:

• ABABDA (the Gebadei of Pliny, probably the Troglodytes of classical writers)

Ababda, they are the See also:

• MODERN

modern representatives . , They are a See also:

• PASTORAL (from Lat. pastor, a shepherd)

pastoral people, ruled by a hereditary See also:

• CHIEF (from Fr. chef, head, Lat. caput)

chief who is directly responsible to the (Anglo-See also:

• EGYPTIAN

Egyptian) Sudan See also:

• GOVERNMENT
• GOVERNMENT (0. Fr. governement, mod. gouvernement, O. Fr. governer, mod. gouverner, from Lat. gubernare, to steer a ship, guide, rule; cf. Gr. xv(3epvav)

government . Although the See also:

• OFFICIAL (Late Lat. QJicialis, for class. Lat. apparitor, from officium, office, duty)

official See also:

• CAPITAL (i.e. capital stock or fund)
• CAPITAL (Lat. caput, head)

capital of the See also:

• HADENDOA (from Beja Hada, chief, and endowa, people)

Hadendoa See also:

• COUNTRY (from the Mid. Eng. contre or contrie, and O. Fr. cuntree; Late Lat. contrata, showing the derivation from contra, opposite, over against, thus the tract of land which fronts the sight, cf. Ger. Gegend, neighbourhood)

country is Miktinab, the See also:

• TOWN

town of Fillik on an affluent of the See also:

• ATBARA (Bahr-el-Aswad, or Black River)

Atbara is really their headquarters . A third of the See also:

• TOTAL

total See also:

• POPULATION (Lat. populus, people; populare, to populate)

population is settled in the Suakin country . See also:

• OSMAN (1832-1900)
• OSMAN (`UsMAN)

Osman Digna, one of the best-known chiefs during the Madhia, was a Hadendoa, and the tribe contributed some of the fiercest of the See also:

• DERVISH

dervish warriors in the See also:

• WARS

wars of 1883–98 . So determined were they in their opposition to the Anglo-Egyptian forces that the name Hadendoa See also:

• GREW, NEHEMIAH (1641-1712)

grew to be nearly synonymous with " See also:

• REBEL, JOHANN PETER (176o-1826)

rebel." But this was the result of Egyptian misgovernment rather than religious See also:

• ENTHUSIASM

enthusiasm; for the Hadendoa are true Beja, and Mahommedans only in name . Their elaborate hairdressing gained them the name of " Fuzzy-wuzzies " among the See also:

• BRITISH

British troops . They earned an unenviable reputation during the wars by their hideous mutilations of the dead on the battlefields . After the reconquest of the Egyptian Sudan (1896–98) the Hadendoa accepted the new See also:

• ORDER
• ORDER (through Fr. ordre, for earlier ordene, from Lat. ordo, ordinis, rank, service, arrangement; the ultimate source is generally taken to be the root seen in Lat. oriri, rise, arise, begin; cf. " origin ")
• ORDER, HOLY

order without demur . See Anglo-Egyptian Sudan, edited by See also:

• COUNT (Lat. comes, gen. comitis, Fr. comte, Ital. conte, Span. conde)

Count See also:

• GLEICHEN

Gleichen (See also:

• LONDON

London, 1905) ; See also:

• SIR

Sir F .

R . See also:

• WINGATE, SIR FRANCIS REGINALD (1861- )

Wingate, Mandism and the Egyptian Sudan (London, 1891); G . Sergi, See also:

• AFRICA
• AFRICA, ROMAN

Africa: See also:

• ANTHROPOLOGY (Gr. avOpw1ror man, and Xoyos, theory or science)

Anthropology of the Hamitic See also:

• RACE

Race (1897); A . H . See also:

• KEANE, JOHN JOSEPH (1839– )

Keane, See also:

• ETHNOLOGY

Ethnology of the Egyptian Sudan (1884) .