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NYANZA (from the ancient Bantu root w...

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Originally appearing in Volume V19, Page 928 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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NYANZA (from the ancient
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Bantu root word anza, a
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river or lake)
  , the
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Bantu name for any
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sheet or stream of
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water of considerable
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size; especially applied to the
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great lakes of east Central Africa . The word is variously spelt, and the form "
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Nyasa " has become the proper name of a particular lake . Nyanza is the spelling used in designating the great lakes which are the main reservoirs of the
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river Nile .

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