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SENEGAMBIA

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Originally appearing in Volume V24, Page 644 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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SENEGAMBIA , a

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TERM

term used to denote the region between the

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SENEGAL

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GAMBIA

Gambia on the

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COAST (from Lat. costa, a rib, side)

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Africa . The

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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)

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south of the Gambia as far as Sierra Leone was formerly also regarded as

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PART

part of Senegambia . As a

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GEOGRAPHICAL

geographical expression Senegambia

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fell into disuse towards the end of the 19th

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CENTURY (from Lat. centuria, a division of a hundred men)

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