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Kantara

a village on the east bank of the Suez Canal, 40 miles south of Port Said. In 1917 it was used as a base of supply by the British forces in Egypt, engineering shops being estab lished and quays built. It was also made the terminus of a military railway across the Sinai peninsula and figured in the Syrian campaign during the World War.

KANURI (kä-nö'rē), or KANORI, a Sudanese people, who form the principal portion of the population of Bornu.

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