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The result was: promoted by Crisco 1492 (talk) 09:40, 17 October 2011 (UTC)

White Aethiopians

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... that Pliny the Elder's "White Aethiopians" may have been members of the Fula people (pictured)?

Created/expanded by Chiswick Chap (talk). Nominated by The Bushranger (talk) at 07:54, 10 October 2011 (UTC)

Hook verified, 5x expansion confirmed per DYKcheck. However; there is still vast potential for improvement. For a start; many of the older refs given are available online (like Pliny, 1855, vol 1, p. 404, The Eastern Libyans (pageno. is presently not given)....however, that is not (presently) in the article. And the hook is based on Affairs of West Africa, p. 141-142. However, if you read that, you see that the first person to suggest that the Leucæthiopian could be Fulani, was in fact James Rennell, in his appendix in Mungo Parks 1799 version of Travels in the Interior Districts of Africa. Cheers, Huldra (talk) 16:00, 16 October 2011 (UTC)