Tukrir
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title:
Tukrir
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In Ethiopia and Eritrea, the terms Tukrīr (Amharic) and Tukrir (Tigrinya) are used to designate persons of West or Central African origin. The terms derives from the city and kingdom of Takrūr that thrived on the lower Senegal River in the eleventh century. The place was well-known to Arab geographers, and an inhabitant of Takrūr or of West Africa in general was called in Arabic a Takrūrī from the 14th century onward. The nisba al-Takrūrī was a common surname for one of West African descent. The
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tukrir
date created:
2019-07-21T04:07:28Z
date modified:
2024-09-01T00:54:02Z
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