Bambarra (Bambar`ra) , 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.
Population (circa 1900) given as 2,000,000.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Balzac, Jean Louis Guez de * Bamberg