riverian

riverian (comparative more riverian, superlative most riverian)

1. Pertaining to a river.
   • 1992, Okon Edet Uya, The African Diaspora and the Black Experience in New World Slavery:

     This riverian environment, as in other places, played a prominent role in the development of the states.

   • 2002, Abida Samiuddin, Muslim Feminism and Feminist Movement: Namibia, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Sudan, West Africa, Yugoslavia:

     The people of northern riverian Sudan continue to participate in the dramatic changes that have swept the Region in the twentieth century, including war and conquest, changes in labour opportunities both locally and abroad, […]

   • 2005, A. Idris, Conflict and Politics of Identity in Sudan, page 27:

     Slave institutions, however, were more effective among riverian Muslim societies of the Northern Sudan than among others such as the Fur.

   • 2006, Richard Rosenfeld, Hidden Assets: Connecting the Past to the Future of St. Louis, page 177:

     While various resources, developed plans, and scattered parcels of land along the riverian corridor were acquired, there was no stable funding for facility development (St. Louis County, 2003).

   • 2009, Salah M. Hassan, Darfur and the Crisis of Governance in Sudan: A Critical Reader:

     As far as other parts of the Sudan, including Darfur, were concerned, they were simply handed over to riverian Sudan to oversee the destruction of their cultures.

   • 2017, Bakheit M. Nur Mohammed, The Religious Men in Jebel Marra: The Process of Learning and the Performance of Islamic Rituals and Practices:

     In the Sudan, people generally refer to religious men who teach the Qur'an and other Islamic knowledge as fuqarâ, whether in Darfur, Kordofan, the riverian or eastern Sudan.

• Riverina, riverain