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MONASSIR (MONASIR)

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Originally appearing in Volume V18, Page 687 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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MONASSIR (MONASIR) , an See also:African tribe of Semitic stock, living in the See also:Nile valley (See also:Berber mudiria) between Birti (their headquarters) and See also:Dar Robatab. They are a prosperous, sedentary tribe, claim kinship with the See also:Ababda, and speak Arabic, but are of very mixed See also:blood. Next to Birti their See also:chief See also:settlement is at Salamat. Both places are on the See also:left See also:bank of the Nile. It was by Monassir tribesmen that See also:Colonel J. D. H. See also:Stewart, See also:Gordon's comrade at See also:Khartum, was murdered in 1884.

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