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William George Browne

British explorer
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July 25, 1768, London, England
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June 1813, Iran (aged 44)
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William George Browne (born July 25, 1768, London, England—died June 1813, Iran) was a British traveler in Central Africa and the Middle East and the first European to describe Darfur, a Muslim sultanate of Billād al-Sūdān, now part of Sudan.

Browne was forcibly detained in Darfur (1793–96) and published his account of the event in Travels in Africa, Egypt and Syria (1799, enlarged ed. 1806). In 1812 he began a journey from England to the city of Samarkand, now in Uzbekistan, and was murdered by robbers on the road through Iran from Tabrīz to Tehrān. Browne’s works were notable for the positive image they presented of Islamic civilization.

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