Bambarra (Bambar`ra) (2,000), a Soudan state on the banks of the Upper Niger, opened up to trade; the soil fertile; yields grain, dates, cotton, and palm-oil; the natives are negroes of the Mohammedan faith, and are good husbandmen.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Balzac, Jean Louis Guez de * Bamberg