Ruanda
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Ruandas,
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Ruanda
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a member of a people living in Rwanda and the E Democratic Republic of the Congo.
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Also called Kinyarwanda. the Bantu language of the Ruandas, closely related to Rundi, spoken in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and by virtually the entire population of Rwanda.
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And at almost the same moment, civil war broke out in Ruanda.
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Significant was the cordial approval of Queen Elizabeth which was manifested, last week, by inhabitants of Ruanda, Africa, a onetime German colony now held by Belgium under a League of Nations mandate.
From Time Magazine Archive
Their feudal rule was especially intricate in Ruanda.
From Time Magazine Archive
The last thing they wanted was for Brussels to push through its new plan to set up elected parliaments in Ruanda and Urundi and turn the two territories into constitutional kingdoms.
From Time Magazine Archive
No small part of the north-western province of Ruanda had been lost as well: the Belgians had occupied Kigali and the British had driven the Germans from their shore of Lake Victoria Nyanza.
From A Short History of the Great War by A. F. (Albert Frederick) Pollard
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