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HADENDOA (from Beja Hada, chief, and endowa, See also: part of the eastern Sudan extending from the Abyssinian frontier northward nearly to See also: Suakin
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They belong to the Beja See also: people, of which, with the See also: Bisharin and the Ababda, they are the See also: modern representatives
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, They are a pastoral people, ruled by a hereditary chief who is directly responsible to the (Anglo-See also: Egyptian) Sudan See also: government
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Although the official capital of the Hadendoa country is Miktinab, the See also: town of Fillik on an affluent of the Atbara is really their headquarters
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A third of the See also: total population is settled in the Suakin country
.
See also: 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 warriors in the See also: wars of 1883–98
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So determined were they in their opposition to the Anglo-Egyptian forces that the name Hadendoa See also: grew to be nearly synonymous with " See also: rebel." But this was the result of Egyptian misgovernment rather than religious See also: enthusiasm; for the Hadendoa are true Beja, and Mahommedans only in name
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Their elaborate hairdressing gained them the name of " Fuzzy-wuzzies " among the See also: British troops
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They earned an unenviable reputation during the wars by their hideous mutilations of the dead on the battlefields
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After the reconquest of the Egyptian Sudan (1896–98) the Hadendoa accepted the new See also: order without demur
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See Anglo-Egyptian Sudan, edited by Count See also: Gleichen (See also: London, 1905) ; See also: Sir F
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R . Wingate, Mandism and the Egyptian Sudan (London, 1891); G . Sergi,See also: Africa: Anthropology of the Hamitic See also: Race (1897); A
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See also: Keane, See also: Ethnology of the Egyptian Sudan (1884)
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