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"en:Places in Kenya"
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"A region and county of Kenya where the Ameru people live."
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]
]
}
],
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"Meru people"
],
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}
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"English entries with topic categories using raw markup",
"English lemmas",
"English proper nouns",
"en:Languages"
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],
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"categories": [
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"Quotation templates to be cleaned",
"en:Mountains",
"en:Places in Tanzania"
],
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{
"ref": "2009, Dale C. Williams, Leadership and Leadership Development in the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Tanzania: An Investigation into Patterns and Processes in the Meru Diocese, page 9",
"text": "It was in 1902, six years after the killings, however, that a church and school were built near Akeri, specifically at Nkoaranga on the slopes of Mount Meru (Baroin 1995, 3).",
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"A mountain in Arusha, Tanzania."
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],
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],
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"A people of northern Tanzania, of the Arumeru district of Arusha region."
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}
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"Mount Meru (Tanzania)"
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"A mountain in the Indian section of the Himalayas."
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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-04-24 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-04-21 using wiktextract (82c8ff9 and f4967a5). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.
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