riverian

comparative more riverian · superlative most riverian

1. Pertaining to a river.

   This riverian environment, as in other places, played a prominent role in the development of the states.

   1992, Okon Edet Uya, The African Diaspora and the Black Experience in New World Slavery

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   The people of northern riverian Sudan continue to participate in the dramatic changes that have swept the Region in the twentieth century, including war and conquest, changes in labour opportunities both locally and abroad, […]

   2002, Abida Samiuddin, Muslim Feminism and Feminist Movement: Namibia, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Sudan, West Africa, Yugoslavia

   Slave institutions, however, were more effective among riverian Muslim societies of the Northern Sudan than among others such as the Fur.

   2005, A. Idris, Conflict and Politics of Identity in Sudan, page 27

   While various resources, developed plans, and scattered parcels of land along the riverian corridor were acquired, there was no stable funding for facility development (St. Louis County, 2003).

   2006, Richard Rosenfeld, Hidden Assets: Connecting the Past to the Future of St. Louis, page 177

   As far as other parts of the Sudan, including Darfur, were concerned, they were simply handed over to riverian Sudan to oversee the destruction of their cultures.

   2009, Salah M. Hassan, Darfur and the Crisis of Governance in Sudan: A Critical Reader

   In the Sudan, people generally refer to religious men who teach the Qur'an and other Islamic knowledge as fuqarâ, whether in Darfur, Kordofan, the riverian or eastern Sudan.

   2017, Bakheit M. Nur Mohammed, The Religious Men in Jebel Marra: The Process of Learning and the Performance of Islamic Rituals and Practices

comparative more Riverian · superlative most Riverian

1. Of, from or relating to Rivers State in Nigeria.

plural Riverians

1. A native or inhabitant of Rivers State in Nigeria.

   For industry watchers, Kamatan needed no greater testimony than Sekibo's and Odili's for his administration of the council as Executive Chairman, knowing the great bond between these two Riverians.

   2005, Business & Maritime West Africa, volume 3, number 2