Crossword clues for gambia
gambia
- West African nation
- Senegal surrounds it
- Mainland Africa's smallest nation
- West African enclave
- The ___ (country mostly surrounded by Senegal)
- The ___ (African country)
- Smallest nation on Africa's mainland
- Smallest country in mainland Africa
- Kunta Kinte's native country
- Its capital is an Atlantic port
- Country that officially takes a "the"
- Africa's smallest country
- River to the Atlantic
- Smallest republic on the African mainland
- A narrow republic surrounded by Senegal in West Africa
- Its only neighbor is Senegal
- Country doctor introduced to Phoebe's mum
- West African river
- West African country surrounded by Senegal
- Short opening move by a foreign state
- African nation
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
West African nation, named for the river through it, which was so called by 14c. Portuguese explorers, said to be a corruption of a native name, Ba-Dimma, meaning "the river." Related: Gambian.\n
WordNet
Usage examples of "gambia".
The warrants triangulated, using a sender at Tobruk and another at the Gambia, and a flight of Lancaster bombers had been sent to investigate a possible U-boat nest.
At contingency landing sites and tracking stations around the world, from NORAD in Colorado to the international airfield at Banjul, Gambia, men and women watched the clock.
When they reached the Senegal and the Gambia, still more, when the coast of Guinea trended to the East, they remembered Prester John, and dreamed of finding a way to his fictitious realm which would afford convenient leverage for Christendom, at the back of the dark world that faced the Mediterranean.
Captain Howel Davis had taken and sacked the fort at Gambia and with his crew was spending a day in revelry, a ship was reported, bearing down on them in full sail.
Castle of Gambia, which was strongly held for the African Company by the Governor and a garrison of English soldiers.
The merchants of Gambia were supposed to victual this garrison, but the rations supplied were considered by Massey to be quite insufficient.
Harlem, inside this store, maybe even beside them examining the pork or the beef, were people from elsewhere, from everywhere, from Turkey, from Gambia, from Suriname, from Senegal.
Both Azurara, the chronicler of his voyages and Diego Gomez, his lieutenant, the explorer of the Cape Verde Islands and of the Upper Gambia, are quite clear about the new knowledge of the coast now gained from Moorish prisoners.
He saw in it a first-rate slave hunting-ground, but it became the starting-point for trade and intercourse with the Negro States of the Senegal and the Gambia, to the south and east.
And he and all his people made a great noise at my going but I left the King at Gambia and started back for Portugal.
Congo, called by the natives Zaire, and now known as the second of African rivers, the true counterpart of that western Nile, which every geographer since Ptolemy had reproduced and which, in the Senegal, the Gambia, and the Niger, the Portuguese had again and again sought to find their explanation.
Sent out in 1795 by the African Society of London, he got as far as Bambarra, saw the Niger, travelled five hundred miles with a slave-merchant, reconnoitred the Gambia River, and returned to England in 1797.
Dr Dalrymple describes the great stretches of mangrove swamp along the Gambia River, but there are vast stretches of swamp throughout Central Africa which remain far more remote and unexplored even than the Gambia half a century ago.