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

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