Tanganyika
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Etymology edit
After Lake Tanganyika, from Swahili tanga (“sail”) and nyika (“uninhabited plain, wilderness”), creating the phrase "sail in the wilderness".
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Tanganyika
- Synonym of Lake Tanganyika, a lake in Africa.
- A former British mandate and territory and, between 1961 and 1964, an independent country in East Africa.
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lake
territory, former country
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Tanganyika
- Tanganyika (a lake eastern Africa)
- (historical) Tanganyika (colonial possession and later country)