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Definition of Tanganyika

1. Noun. The longest lake in the world in central Africa between Tanzania and Congo in the Great Rift Valley.

2. Noun. A former state in East Africa; united with Zanzibar in 1964 to form Tanzania.

Definition of Tanganyika

1. Proper noun. A large lake in central Africa, between Burundi, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Tanzania and Zambia. ¹

2. Proper noun. A former British mandate and territory and, between 1961 and 1964, an independent country in East Africa. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Tanganyika

Tanach Tanagra Tanaina Tanainas Tanakh Tanana Tanapox Tancred Tandearil Tanduay

Taney Tang Dynasty Tang dynasty Tangail District Tanganyika (current term) Tanganyikan Tanganyikans Tange Tangerine Tangerines

Tangier Tangier pea Tangier peavine Tangiers Tanglish Tango Uniform Tangshan Tanguy Tania

Literary usage of Tanganyika

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Geographical Journal by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain) (1899)
"In July, 1896, I arrived, by Lake Nyasa and the Stevenson road, at the British South Africa Company's Station, Abercorn, 14 miles south of Lake Tanganyika ..."

2. Proceedings by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain), Norton Shaw, Francis Galton, William Spottiswoode, Clements Robert Markham, Henry Walter Bates, John Scott Keltie (1875)
"Cameron, announcing that he had circumnavigated Lake Tanganyika, ... Whenever Lake Tanganyika was mentioned, it should be remembered that its first ..."

3. The Geographical Journal by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain). (1906)
"Although the spelling most usual in this country is Tanganyika, the word is not ... I might point out, too, that the spelling Tanganyika is the cause of not ..."

4. Report of the Annual Meeting (1883)
"On the Geographical Evolution of the Tanganyika Basin. By JOSEPH THOMSON, F.If.GS The keynote of this paper is struck by a reference to a recent lecture of ..."

5. Across Africa by Verney Lovett Cameron, Daniel Oliver (1877)
"The Tanganyika, Nyassa, and Albert Nyanza, in my opinion —though of course this is only ... Until I found the variation on Tanganyika to be 17° westerly, ..."

6. Across Africa by Verney Lovett Cameron, Daniel Oliver (1877)
"The West of Tanganyika. — A New Geographical Region. ... Until I found the variation on Tanganyika to be 17° westerly, that lake was laid down on the maps ..."

7. The American Geologist by Newton Horace Winchell (1905)
"Lake Tanganyika, about 400 miles long, 2700 feet above tho sea and having a ... Mr. JES Moore, who visited lake Tanganyika in 1896 and again in 1899 for ..."

8. Africa by Keith Johnston, Augustus Henry Keane (1878)
"Taking as our guides Captains Burton and Speke, the discoverers of the Tanganyika and the Victoria lake, Commander Cameron, who in 1875 was the first to ..."

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