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🌍 Historic African area 🇸🇩 Old name for Sudan
Soudan

Soudan

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An old region of north Africa south of the Sahara stretching from the Atlantic to the Red Sea
  • proper noun
  • Archaic
translation icon : Soudán
  • Explorers traveled through the Soudan, encountering various tribes and marveling at the vast landscapes.
  • West Soudan

Examples

  • For one Frenchman writing to a correspondent in France, the luxuriant undergrowth of "Senegal et Soudan."

    Academic text (1991)

  • So here's to you, Fuzzy-Wuzzy, at your home in the Soudan;

    Blog text (18)

  • James Pointer, an interpretive supervisor with Soudan Underground Mine State Park in Minnesota, was on hand for Wednesday's fossil day event.

    Blog text (30)

  • It would be interesting to see if a decay rate variation has been detected at UW-Madison (just south of the straight line path of the neutrino beam from Fermilab to Soudan, MN) since the MINOS experiment started.

    Blog text (5)

  • The ancient history of the Soudan reveals a rich tapestry of cultures and civilizations that thrived in northern Africa.

  • The trade routes passing through the Soudan were essential for connecting different regions of Africa in the past.

Synonyms

Sudan
vsSoudan
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A large region south of the Sahara that stretches from the Atlantic to the Red Sea

is an older historical name for the same geographic area

Surface Forms

Soudan main

Etymology

Soudan comes from the Arabic phrase Bilad al-Sūdān, which means 'land of the blacks'. Arab writers used this name for the large area south of the Sahara, so the word refers to that historical region.