BENT (E1. BENI)

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BENT (E1. BENI) , a department of north-eastern Bolivia, bounded N. and E. by Brazil, S. by the departments of Santa Cruz and Cochabamba, and W. by La Paz and the national territory contiguous to Peru and Brazil. Pop. (est., 1900) 32,180, including 6000 wild Indians; area (est., probably too high) 102,111 sq. m. The " Llanos de Mojos," famous for their flourishing Jesuit mission settlements of the 17th and 18th centuries, occupy the eastern part of this department and are still inhabited by an industrious peaceful native population, devoted to cattle raising and primitive methods of agriculture. Cattle and forest products, including rubber and coca, are exported to a limited extent. The

capital

CAPITAL (i.e. capital stock or fund)
CAPITAL (Lat. caput, head)

, Trinidad (pop. 2556), is situated on the Mamore river in an open fertile country, and was once a flourishing Jesuit mission.
BENI-AMER (Amrx), a tribe of

African

AFRICAN

" Arabs " of Hamitic stock, ethnologically intermediate between Abyssinians and Nubians. They are of the Beja family, and occupy the

coast

COAST (from Lat. costa, a rib, side)

of the Red Sea

south

SOUTH
SOUTH, ROBERT (1634–1716)

Suakin

SUAKIN, or SAWAKIN

and portions of the adjacent

coast

COAST (from Lat. costa, a rib, side)

-country of Eritrea, north of Abyssinia. They are of very mixed Beja and Abyssinian blood, and speak a dialect half Beja and half Tigre, locally known as Hassa. They marry the women of the Bogos and other mountain tribes; but are too proud to let their daughters marry Abyssinians.
See Anglo-Egyptian Sudan, ed.

Count

COUNT (Lat. comes, gen. comitis, Fr. comte, Ital. conte, Span. conde)

Gleichen (London, 1905) ; A. H.

Keane

KEANE, JOHN JOSEPH (1839– )

, Ethnology of Egyptian Sudan (1884) ; G. Sergi, Africa: Antropologia della Stirpe Camitica (Turin, 1897).
BENI-

ISRAEL

ISRAEL (Hebrew for " God strives " or " rules "; see Gen. xxxii. 28; and the allusion in Hosea xii. 4)

(" Sons of

Israel

ISRAEL (Hebrew for " God strives " or " rules "; see Gen. xxxii. 28; and the allusion in Hosea xii. 4)

"), a colony of Jews settled on the Malabar coast in Kolaba

district

DISTRICT

, Bombay presidency, chiefly centring in the native state of Janjira. With the Jews of Cochin, they represent a very ancient Judaic invasion of India, and are to be entirely distinguished from those Jews who have come to India in modern days for purposes of trade. Some authorities believe that the Beni-Israel settled in Kolaba in the 15th century, but they themselves have traditions which indicate a far longer connexion with India (see JEws: 3).

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