Kageras

Kageras is a small late medieval fort in Upper Nubia. It lies on the eastern side of the Nile to about half way between the third and second cataract.

At this place a church was built in the tenth or eleventh century. To this church, a defensive wall was built in the late Middle Ages. The wall was once about three feet tall and is still very well preserved. Have round towers at each corner. In the north there is an entrance.

It is doubtful whether this just 35 x 35 m site was continuously inhabited. It seems more of a refuge for the surrounding, Christian Nubian population to have acted, who seems to struggle more and more with attacking nomads in the late Middle Ages.

The plant was examined by a 1966-1969 American -Swiss Mission.