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Oldest republic in Africa
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liberia
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Liberia , officially the Republic of Liberia , is a country on the West African coast. Liberia means "Land of the Free" in Latin . It is bordered by Sierra Leone to its west, Guinea to its north and Ivory Coast to its east. It covers an area of and has ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
African nation, begun as a resettlement project of freed American slaves in 1816 by the American Colonization Society, the name chosen by society member and U.S. senator Robert Goodloe Harper (1765-1825) from Latin liber "free" (see liberal ).
Usage examples of liberia.
There was no hope of regeneration in the slave-dealing Soudanese, the debased Fantee, or the Americanised negroes of Liberia.
The proceeds of the Hospicers of Camillus de Lellis went to a coded account in Liberia that not even Hounder would be able to crack.
In Africa, there were the ports of Lagos in Nigeria, and Monrovia in Liberia.
They passed Liberia, the republic formed of liberated slaves, and of negroes from America, and brought up a mile or two off Monrovia, its capital.
Planes arrived for Milo from airfields in Italy, North Africa and England, and from Air Transport Command stations in Liberia, Ascension Island, Cairo, and Karachi.
There were also pockets of new immigrants, legal and otherwise, from Senegal, Liberia and the Central African nations.
We fit out a dozen vessels-not our own, oh dear me no, but flags of convenience, ships from Panama or Liberia or Honduras-with two or three rockets apiece.
There was a trio of German girls, round and firm and much too fully packed, who didn't speak a word of any civilized tongue and spent all their time taking pictures, not that the water off the Ivory Coast looked all that different from the water next to Liberia.
In the “half or part” of the country that the regime did not control, units of two separate armies from the war in neighboring Liberia had casually taken up residence, alongside a third army of Sierra Leonean rebels.
Seluki, a native of Liberia and a Master of Arts of the University of Romeville, Oklahoma.
The town of Danane, in the western Ivory Coast, near the borders of Liberia and Guinea, is a good place from which to begin a tour of the earth at the end of the twentieth century, a time when politics are increasingly shaped by the physical environment.
President Reagan’s tolerance of the Doe thugocracy (a Voice of America relay station and a Firestone rubber plantation were located in Liberia, making President Doe a “bulwark against communism”) was cited as proof of how America was to blame for Liberia’s failure.