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    The Dharug or Darug people, are an Aboriginal Australian people, who share strong ties of kinship and, in pre-colonial times, lived as skilled hunters...
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    The Dharug language, also spelt Darug, Dharuk, and other variants, and also known as the Sydney language, Gadigal language (Sydney city area), is an Australian...
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    The Dharug National Park is a protected national park that is located in the Central Coast region of New South Wales, in eastern Australia. The 14,850-hectare...
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  • the local Dharug people and their neighbours. The disastrous 1789 smallpox epidemic was estimated to have killed about 53% of the local Dharug population...
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  • Boorooberongal man of the Dharug people, an Aboriginal Australian people from present-day New South Wales. Colebee and fellow Dharug man Nurragingy received...
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    between the kangaroos and the wallabies. The word "wallaroo" is from the Dharug walaru, and not a portmanteau of the words "kangaroo" and "wallaby", as...
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    language and rites. The major groups were the coastal Eora people, the Dharug (Darug) occupying the inland area from Parramatta to the Blue Mountains...
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    Georges River. They are part of the Dharug language group, and there is debate as to whether the clan is part of the Dharug or Eora people. The Bidjigal clan...
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    the first British settlers in the Sydney area from a word in the local Dharug language, it usually includes dance, music, costume and often body decoration...
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  • the Hornet Bank massacre Bennelong (c.1764–1813) – representative of the Dharug people and pioneering interlocutor with the British Billibellary (1799–1846)...
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    The name "wombat" comes from the now nearly extinct Dharug language spoken by the aboriginal Dharug people, who originally inhabited the Sydney area. It...
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    (/pɛməlwɔɪ/ PEM-əl-woy; c. 1750 – c. 2 June 1802), was a Bidjigal warrior of the Dharug nation, born around 1750 in the area of Botany Bay in New South Wales, Australia...
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  • gula in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Gula may refer to: Gula (animal), Dharug language name for the koala bear Gula (crater), a crater on Ganymede Gula...
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    variously as Dharug, Eora or simply 'the Sydney Language' was spoken around Woronora at the time of colonisation (Troy 1994:61). Lists of Dharug words gathered...
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    The Wangal people (a.k.a. Wanegal or Won-gal,) are a clan of the Dharug Aboriginal people whose heirs are custodians of the lands and waters of what is...
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    facilities. As well as a rich convict and colonial heritage in the area, the Dharug National Park and Yengo National Park are close by. The town was originally...
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    Parliament referendum. Lyrics for the anthem have been written twice in the Dharug language, an Australian Aboriginal language spoken around Sydney by the...
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    revived uses of spear-throwers (or the Mayan word hul'che); in Australia, the Dharug word woomera is used instead. The ancient Greeks and Romans used a leather...
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  • area was part of Marsden Park. The origin of the suburb name is from the Dharug Aboriginal language meaning a type of wattle found in the area. Australian...
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  • see Cadi (Surselva) Cadi (Phrygia), town and bishopric of ancient Phrygia Dharug name of Sydney and surrounds (El) Cadí or Cady (river), in SW Europe Serra...
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    young in a pouch. The word "pademelon" comes from the word badimaliyan in Dharug, an Australian Aboriginal language spoken near what is now Port Jackson...
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    5 lb). Wallabies are hunted for meat and fur. The name wallaby comes from Dharug walabi or waliba.[citation needed] Another early name for the wallaby, in...
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    Aboriginal Heritage Office: There is a move away from using words like Eora, Dharug, Guringai among some of those involved but still a sense by others that...
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    Solanum aviculare, commonly called poroporo or pōporo (New Zealand), bumurra (Dharug), kangaroo apple, pam plum (Australia), or New Zealand nightshade, is a...
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  • Tribe  Great Britain from 1801: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland Dharug Eora Tharawal Gandangara Irish-convict sympathisers British victory Displacement...
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  • Bonnyrigg Heights is located on the traditional indigenous lands of the Dharug Nation. The elevation of Bonnyrigg Heights is between 42 and 90 metres above...
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  • Indigenous Tasmanians. In the novel they are described as 'Dharug', that is men of the Dharug Nation from the modern day Sydney Basin area. Pigeon and Crook...
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  • Wiradhuric Gamilaraay Ngiyambaa Wiradjuri Yuin–Kuric Awabakal Darkinjung Dharug Dhanggati Ngarigo Ngunnawal Tharawal Wormi Gippsland Dhudhuroa Gunaikurnai...
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    traditional custodians of the land in what is today’s Westmead are the Dharug people. Captain Cook claimed the east coast of Australia for Britain in...
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    Sydney was occupied by Aboriginal Australians (specifically, the Eora and Dharug people) during this time period, as evidenced by radiocarbon dating. In...
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