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Africa vs Sheba - What's the difference?

africa | sheba |

As proper nouns the difference between africa and sheba

is that africa is a province of the Roman Empire containing what is now modern Tunisia and portions of Libya while Sheba is an ancient kingdom in Arabia or possibly in Africa.

africa

English

(wikipedia Africa)

Alternative forms

* Afric

Proper noun

(en proper noun)
  • (historical) A province of the Roman Empire containing what is now modern Tunisia and portions of Libya.
  • The continent that is south of Europe, east of the Atlantic Ocean, west of the Indian Ocean and north of Antarctica. It holds the following countries:
    • The Maghreb and the Subsahara are regions of Africa with different geographies .

    Hyponyms

    (Countries of Africa) Central Africa * Central African Republic * Chad * Democratic Republic of the Congo * Republic of the Congo Eastern Africa * Burundi * Comoros * Djibouti * Eritrea * Ethiopia * Kenya * Seychelles * Rwanda * Somalia – Somaliland – Puntland * Tanzania * Uganda Northern Africa * Algeria * Ceuta * Egypt * Libya * Mauritania * Melilla * Morocco * South Sudan * Sudan * Tunisia * Western Sahara Southern Africa * Angola * Botswana * Lesotho * Madagascar * Malawi * Mauritius * Mozambique * Namibia * Reunion * Swaziland * South Africa * Zambia * Zimbabwe Western Africa * Benin * Burkina Faso * Cameroon * Cape Verde * * Equatorial Guinea * Gabon * The Gambia * Ghana * Guinea-Bissau * Liberia * Mali * Niger * Nigeria * Sao Tome and Principe * Senegal * Sierra Leone * Togo *Subsahara

    Derived terms

    * African * Afrikaans * Horn of Africa * North Africa * South Africa

    See also

    * *

    External links

    * Africa Time Zones with current time

    Anagrams

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    sheba

    English

    (wikipedia Sheba)

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) .

    Proper noun

    (en proper noun)
  • (biblical) An ancient kingdom in Arabia or possibly in Africa.
  • * :
    • And when the queen of Sheba heard of the fame of Solomon concerning the name of the LORD, she came to prove him with hard questions.
  • (very, rare, outside the Bible) .
  • * :
    • And there happened to be there a man of Belial, whose name was Sheba , the son of Bichri, a Benjamite: and he blew a trumpet, and said, We have no part in David, neither have we inheritance in the son of Jesse: every man to his tents, O Israel.
    Derived terms
    * Queen of Sheba

    Etymology 2

    Short form of Bathsheba.

    Proper noun

    (en proper noun)
  • .
  • * 1996 , Hotel Paradise , Headline, ISBN 0-7472-1538-3, page 172:
    • 'I was kinda sweet on her my own self. Sheba Otis, her name was then.' I was surprised. 'She married a Queen? Which one?' 'Can't say.' He sighed. 'Her name's Bathsheba, but she never liked that much.'