_A. S. White, The Development of Africa, Second Edition, Revised, 1892._ ALSO IN: _J. S. Keltie, The Partition of Africa, chapter 12-23._ See, also, SOUTH AFRICA, and UGANDA. AFRICA: The inhabiting races. The indigenous races of Africa are considered to be four in number, namely: the Negroes proper, who occupy a central zone, stretching from the Atlantic to the Egyptian Sudan, and who comprise an enormous number of diverse tribes; the Fulahs (with whom the Nubians are associated) settled mainly between Lake Chad and the Niger; the Bantus, who occupy the whole South, except its extremity, and the Hottentots who are in that extreme southern region. Some anthropologists include with the Hottentots the Bosjesmans or Bushmen. The Kafirs and Bechuanas are Bantu tribes. The North and Northeast are occupied by Semitic and Hamitic races, the latter including Abyssinians and Gallas. _A. H. Keane, The African Races (Stanford's Compendium: Africa, appendix)._ ALSO IN: _R. Brown, The Races of Mankind, volumes 2-3._ _R. N. Cust, Sketch of the Modern Languages of Africa_. See, also, SOUTH AFRICA. ----------AFRICA: End---------- AGA MOHAMMED KHAN, Shah of Persia, A. D. 1795-1797. AGADE. See BABYLONIA: THE EARLY (CHALDEAN) MONARCHY. AGAPETUS II., Pope, A. D. 946-956. AGAS. See SUBLIME PORTE. AGATHO, Pope, A. D. 678-682. AGATHOCLES, The tyranny of. See SYRACUSE: B. C. 317-289. AGE OF STONE. AGE OF BRONZE, &c. See STONE AGE. {20} AGELA. AGELATAS. The youths and young men of ancient Crete were publicly trained and disciplined in divisions or companies, each of which was called an Agela, and its leader or director the Agelatas. _G. Schömann, Antiquity of Greece: The State, part 3, chapter 2._ AGEMA, The. The royal escort of Alexander the Great. AGEN, Origin of. See NITIOBRIGES. AGENDICUM OR AGEDINCUM. See SENONES. AGER PUBLICUS.