The Collaborative International Dictionary
Dongola \Don"go*la\, n.
A government of Upper Egypt.
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same as Dongola kid.
Dongola kid, D. leather, leather made by the Dongola process.
Dongola process, a process of tanning goatskin, and now also calfskin and sheepskin, with a combination of vegetable and mineral agents, so that it resembles kid.
Dongola race, a boat race in which the crews are composed of a number of pairs, usually of men and women.
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Housing Units (2000): 354
Land area (2000): 1.105934 sq. miles (2.864356 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.030364 sq. miles (0.078642 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 1.136298 sq. miles (2.942998 sq. km)
FIPS code: 20305
Located within: Illinois (IL), FIPS 17
Location: 37.361243 N, 89.164574 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 62926
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Wikipedia
Dongola ( ), also spelled Dunqulah, and formerly known as Al 'Urdi, is the capital of the state of Northern in Sudan, on the banks of the Nile, and a former Latin Catholic bishopric (14th century). It should not be confused with Old Dongola, an ancient city located 80 km upstream on the opposite bank.
The town is home to the University of Dongola, a public university.
Dongola is a city in Sudan.
Dongola may also refer to:
Usage examples of "dongola".
Wady Halfa, across the desert, towards the elbow of the great bend from Dongola to Abu Hamed.
Anything will do for riding about at Dongola, and learning to keep your seat.
I shall have to buy a horse, too, when I get up to Dongola, and I may have other expenses, that I cannot foresee.
Italy, that we should relieve her from the pressure of the Dervishes round Kassala by effecting a diversion, and obliging the enemy to send a large force down to Dongola to resist our advance.
Instead of waiting until we could lend them a hand, they revolted as soon as we took Dongola, and the result was that Mahmud came down and pretty well wiped them out.
Mahmud, who was of an eager and impetuous disposition, was anxious to take the offensive at once, and either to march upon Merawi and Dongola, or to drive the British out of Berber.
Nile for an advance upon Berber was far less formidable than it would have been, had it been led forward against Merawi and Dongola directly after the capture of Metemmeh.
We heard of it, at Dongola, but beyond the fact that we had thrashed the Khalifa, and taken Omdurman, we received no particulars.
I should have to endeavour to make my way down to Dongola, and from there either by boat or by the river bank to Assouan.
His inscription at Tumbus, near the northern end of the Dongola reach, proves it.
Since then we know that Tutmosis went right up the Dongola reach to the fourth cataract and beyond it, until he came to Kurgus, where he set up a boundary inscription that is yet to be deciphered.
Petronius, governor of Egypt, had brought down as many as ten thousand infantry and eight hundred cavalry to recover possession, had pursued the Kushites southward to their former capital of Napata, at the up-river end of the Dongola reach, and taken and destroyed that city.
Governed from Napata, below the fourth cataract where the Dongola reach begins, this new Kushite power incorporated much that was Egyptian.
Trench heard of a man slipping out from Wadi Halfa, crossing the Nile and wandering with the assumed manner of a lunatic southwards, starving and waterless, until one day he was snapped up by a Mahdist caravan and dragged to Dongola as a spy.
And at Dongola things had happened of which the mere mention made Trench shake.