Identifier: colliersnewencyc03newy (find matches)
Title: Collier's new encyclopedia : a loose-leaf and self-revising reference work ... with 515 illustrations and ninety-six maps
Year: 1921 (1920s)
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Subjects: Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Publisher: New York : P. F. Collier
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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wealth of the inhabitants consists principally in cattle. Horses, sheep, camels, and game abound. Darfur carries on a considerable trade withEgypt, Mecca, and the inland countries of Africa; it was a notorious center of the slave trade. The Fulbes are an in-telligent, well-built race, and have long been Mohammedans; their numbers ar©variously estimated at from 3,000,000 to4,000,000. Kobbe is the chief trading town. In 1900 Darfur and Kordofan were within the sphere of British in-fluence, by an agreement between GreatBritain, Germany, and Italy. See Brit-ish East Africa. DAKGENSON 265 DABIEN, ISTHMUS OF DARGENSON, MARC PIERRE,COMTE (dar-zhon-son), a French statesman; bom in 1696; the younger son of the Marquis dArgenson (1652-1721), who created the secret police and established the lettres de cachet. He be- Militaire. He was an illustrious patron of literature. In 1757 he was banished to his estate by the machinations ofMadame Pompadour; but on her deathhe returned to Paris, where he died in1764.
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THE DARDANELLES came war minister in 1743, at a time when the very political existence ofFrance was imperiled, and by his vigoriand lucky choice of generals changed the fortunes of the war. After the peace ofAix-la-Chapelle (1748), he devoted him-self to the improvement of the military system, and in 1751 established the Ecole DARIEN, GULF OF, a gulf of the Caribbean Sea at the N. extremity ofSouth America, between the Isthmus ofPanama and the mainland. DARIEN, ISTHMUS OF, often used as synonymous with the Isthmus ofPanama, but more strictly applied to DARIUS THE MEDE 266 DARLING the neck of land between the Gulf ofDarien and the Pacific. DARIUS THE MEDE (da-rius), sonof Astyages, King of the Medes, and brother of Mandane, mother of Cyrus, and of Amyit the mother of Evil-merodach and grandmother of Belshaz-zar; thus, he was uncle, by the mothers side, to Evil-merodach and to Cyrus. TheHebrew generally calls him Darius; theSeptuagint, Artaxerxes; and Xenophon, Cyaxares. Darius dethroned Belsha

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