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21. 3. A diocese of the later Roman prefecture of Italy. It comprised the Roman provinces of Africa, Numidia, and a part of Mauri tan i a, and corresponded to modern Algeria, Tunis, and Tripoli. 4. See the extract. Africa meant to the Arabs the province of Carthage or Tunis and its capital, which was not at first Tunis but succe ively Kayrawan and Mahdiya. Throughout the later middle ages the name Africa is applied by Chrisa "grand and noble enterprise" came to an untimely end. "The Genoese," says Froi art, "bore great enmity to this town; for its Corsairs frequently watched them at sea, and when strongest fell on and plundered their ships, carrying their spoils to this town of Africa, which was and is now their place of deposit and may be called their warren." It was "beyond measure strong, surrounded by high walls, gates, and deep ditches." tian writers to latter city. Here it was that in 1390 Poole , Story of the Barbary Corsairs, p. 131. Africaine (äf-ri-kān'), L'. An opera by Mey guages is not yet sufficient to warrant a final, or even a generally acceptable, cla ification. Specialists contraerbeer, produced at the Académie in Paris, dict each other as soon as they begin to cla ify. The English-speaking public still holds to the temporary clas sif i cation of Dr. R. N. Cust in his "Modern Languages of Africa," which is simply that of Fr. Müller in his "Grundri der Sprachwi enschaft." German Africanists show, of late, a preference for that of Dr. Lepsius in the intro duction to his "Grammar of Nuba." "Somewhat modified, this will probably be that of the future. Our cla ification tries to combine the nomenclature of Dr. Cust, generally followed in English books, with the facts, which give more support to the system of Lepsius. The main question is about the relation of Bantu and Negro. IMG:content-0030.png:[blocks in formation] April 28, 1865, after his death. African International A ociation. See Kongo Free State. African War, The. The war between Julius Cæsar and the followers of Pompey, who had collected in the province of Africa after the defeat of Pharsalia 48 B. c., and were over- thrown at Thapsus 46 в. с. Africans, The. A pastoral by Colman the younger, produced in 1808. African us (af-ri-kā'nus), Sextus Julius. A Christian historian of the first half of the 3d century A. D., author of a treatise on chronology, fragments of which are extant (chiefly in Eusebius). Afrikander (äf-re-kän'der). The Dutch word for "African": a name given to whites born in South Africa, particularly to those of Dutch descent. Afrikander Bund (äf-re-kän'der bönt), or Bond (bond). A South African a ociation founded in 1879 (and under the present name (1) Semitic languages: (a) Pure Arabic (Egyptian, Maghreb, Sudani, and Musin 1880), which aims not only at the furtherance cat dialects). IMG:content-0031.png:[blocks in formation] English Creole (in West Africa, Kru-English). Portuguese Creole (Cape Verde Islands; S. Thomé and Principe Islands). Dutch Creole (Boers and Hottentots). In the English, Portuguese, and Dutch Creoles, the word store is European; much of the phonology, morphology, and syntax African. For the Semitic and Malay lan see Arabic , Malay -Polynesian. For the purely African languages, see Bantu , Nigritic , Hamitic , Nuba Fulah , Hottentot .-African ethnography. Owing to the seantine of ethnographic data, the division of Africa is also generally applied to the ethnographic cla i fication. It should, however, be remembered that the two do not cover each other exactly either within a family or group, or from cla to cla . Thus the Hottentots of Cape Colony have lost their original dialect, and adopted Dutch. The Ba-Rotse, on the Zambesi, have lost their language and adopted the Se-chuana dialect of the Ma-Kololo. The Suba of Egypt, while retaining many characteristics of their language, have lost nearly all their racial traits, while, on the contrary, the Hausa have given up almost every trace of their first mother tongue, but are still, racially, pure negroes. As a rule, the names of African tribes and languages or dialects, if stripped of prefixes and suffixes, coincide, and will be found under one title in this dictionary. See Bantu , Nigritic , Hottentot , Hamitic , Suba - Fulah ; also African names and African languages .] 2. In ancient geography, a part of northern Africa which corresponded nearly to the modern Tunis. It comprised the immediate dominions of Carthage. Later it was a Roman province. of Afrikanderinfluence, but at the ultimate complete independence of South Africa in the form of a United States of South Africa. Afzelius (af-zē'li-us; Sw. pron. äf-tsā'li-ös), Adam. Born at Larf, Sweden, Oct. 7, 1750: died Jan. 30,1837. A Swedish naturalist, demon strator of botany at Upsala (1785), scientific explorer in Sierra Leone (1792), secretary of legation in London (1796), and profe or of materia medic a at Upsala (1812). Afzelius, Arvid August. Born May 6, 1785: died at Enköping, Sept. 25, 1871. A Swedish writer and scholar, noted as a collector of Swedish folk-songs. He was pastor at Enkö ping after 1821. Agabus (ag'a-bus). [Gr. " Ἄγαβος .] A prophet and martyr of the early Christian church, supposed to have been one of the seventy disciples of Christ. In 43 A. D., while Paul and Barnabas were in Antioch, he came from Judea to Antioch, where he predicted the approach of a famine. (Acts xi. 27, 28.) He is said to have suffered martyrdom at Antioch, and is commemorated as a saint in the Byzantine Church on March 8. Agada (ag'a-da). [Aramean form of Hebrew hagada , narrative.] The name given to one of the two great divisions of post-biblical Hebrew literature. It denotes that portion of the Talmudic literature not devoted to religious law: thus the exegetical and homiletical portions, fables, proverbs, the ethics, as well as everything relating to natural science and history, are included under the term Agada , which is opposed to Halacha , the legal portions. Agade (a-gä'de). See Akkad .