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    The Dharug or Darug people, are an Aboriginal Australian people, who share ties of kinship and, in pre-colonial times, lived as hunters in family groups...
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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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  • 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 with spelling influenced by the words "kangaroo" and "wallaby". Wallaroos...
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  • Australian Aboriginal woman, thought to be from the Cammeraygal clan of the Dharug nation. Patyegarang (pronounced Pa-te-ga-rang) taught William Dawes the...
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    The Wangal people (a.k.a. Wanngal 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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    (/pɛməlwɔɪ/ PEM-əl-woy; c. 1750 – c. 2 June 1802) was a Bidjigal warrior of the Dharug, an Aboriginal Australian people from New South Wales. One of the most famous...
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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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  • 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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  • 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. Melonba...
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    Bidjigal Reserve, Salt Pan Creek and the Georges River. They are part of the Dharug language group. The Bidjigal clan were the first Indigenous Australians...
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  • known as the Eora people. "Eora" refers to "people" or "of this place" in Dharug language. Soon after his arrival at Port Jackson, Governor Arthur Phillip...
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    the Hornet Bank massacre Bennelong (c.1764 - 1813) representative of the Dharug people and pioneering interlocutor with the British Billiamook (c. 1853)...
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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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  • 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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    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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    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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    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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    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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  • north-west Sydney in the local government area of Blacktown. Nirimba is a Dharug word meaning pelican. Nirimba Fields was gazetted on 6 November 2020. A...
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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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    amongst the natural sounds of the bush. The word "cooee" originates from the Dharug language of Aboriginal Australians in the Sydney area. The call was used...
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  • distances and is used to attract attention, which has been derived from Dharug, an Aboriginal language spoken in the Sydney region. Cooee has also become...
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    terrestrial Australian flora and fauna. The traditional custodians are the Dharug people located on the north side of the river, and Dharawal people located...
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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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    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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    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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    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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    western boundary is Bridge Road, the railway line and Finlayson Creek. The Dharug people are the traditional custodians of the land in the area now known...
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