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MONASSIR (MONASIR)

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Originally appearing in Volume V18, Page 687 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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MONASSIR (MONASIR)  , an
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African tribe of Semitic stock, living in the Nile valley (
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Berber mudiria) between Birti (their headquarters) and
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Dar Robatab . They are a prosperous, sedentary tribe, claim kinship with the Ababda, and speak Arabic, but are of very mixed
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blood . Next to Birti their chief settlement is at Salamat . Both places are on the
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left
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bank of the Nile . It was by Monassir tribesmen that Colonel J . D . H . Stewart, Gordon's comrade at
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Khartum, was murdered in 1884 .

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