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BENT (E1. BENI)

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Originally appearing in Volume V03, Page 737 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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BENT (E1. BENI) , a See also:department of See also:north-eastern See also:Bolivia, bounded N. and E. by See also:Brazil, S. by the departments of See also:Santa Cruz and See also:Cochabamba, and W. by La Paz and the See also:national territory contiguous to See also:Peru and Brazil. Pop. (est., 1900) 32,180, including 6000 See also:wild See also:Indians; See also:area (est., probably too high) 102,111 sq. m. The " Llanos de Mojos," famous for their flourishing Jesuit See also:mission settlements of the 17th and 18th centuries, occupy the eastern See also:part of this department and are still inhabited by an industrious peaceful native See also:population, devoted to See also:cattle raising and See also:primitive methods of See also:agriculture. Cattle and See also:forest products, including See also:rubber and See also:coca, are exported to a limited extent. The See also:capital, See also:Trinidad (pop. 2556), is situated on the See also:Mamore See also:river in an open fertile See also:country, and was once a flourishing Jesuit mission. BENI-AMER (Amrx), a tribe of See also:African " See also:Arabs " of Hamitic stock, ethnologically intermediate between Abyssinians and Nubians. They are of the See also:Beja See also:family, and occupy the See also:coast of the Red See also:Sea See also:south of See also:Suakin and portions of the adjacent coast-country of See also:Eritrea, north of See also:Abyssinia. They are of very mixed Beja and Abyssinian See also:blood, and speak a See also:dialect See also:half Beja and half See also:Tigre, locally known as Hassa. They marry the See also:women of the See also:Bogos and other See also:mountain tribes; but are too proud to let their daughters marry Abyssinians.

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Egyptian See also:Sudan, ed. See also:Count See also:Gleichen (See also:London, 1905) ; A. H. See also:Keane, See also:Ethnology of Egyptian Sudan (1884) ; G. Sergi, See also:Africa: Antropologia della Stirpe Camitica (See also:Turin, 1897). BENI-See also:ISRAEL (" Sons of Israel "), a See also:colony of See also:Jews settled on the See also:Malabar coast in See also:Kolaba See also:district, Bombay See also:presidency, chiefly centring in the native See also:state of See also:Janjira. With the Jews of See also:Cochin, they represent a very See also:ancient Judaic invasion of See also:India, and are to be entirely distinguished from those Jews who have come to India in See also:modern days for purposes of See also:trade. Some authorities believe that the Beni-Israel settled in Kolaba in the 15th See also:century, but they themselves have traditions which indicate a far longer connexion with India (see JEws: § 3).

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