Berber, Sudan

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Barbarian (Arabic بربر barbarian; alternative spelling Berber ) is a city in Sudan and the administrative seat of the homonymous district barbarian.

Location

The city is located on the eastern side of the Nile in Sudan's state - Nahr an Nil, about 50 kilometers north of Atbara on the road to Wadi Halfa and about 300 kilometers northeast of Khartoum. By Barbar also leads the railway line between Wadi Halfa and Khartoum.

Population

Barbarian has 27 254 inhabitants (calculated 2010).

Population development:

History

The city was the starting point of the ancient caravan route from the Nile through the Nubian desert to Sawakin the Red Sea.

In the time of the Mahdi uprising Berber had a high strategic importance. The Mahdists captured the city on 20 May 1884. Thus Khartoum was cut off from supplies from Egypt. The British tried from 1885, advance of Sawakin from over barbarian on the upper Nile and to build a railway to connect these places. In 1886, after the completion of about 30 kilometers, the company was abandoned.

While Kitchener's campaign to retake the Sudan was formed a flying column under General Hunter in July 1897, the Abu Hamed should take. From July 29 to August 7 this column moved by forced marches 133 miles through the desert before and was able to Abu Hamed reach before the relief force of Mahdists. The Sheik of Barber, Zeki Osman, then evacuated on August 24 Barber, which was occupied on August 31 of irregular camel riders in the Anglo- Egyptian army and on September 5 Hunters column.

Sons and daughters of the town

• Mohammed Ahmed Mustafa al - Dabi, a Sudanese general, ambassador to Qatar and head of the observer mission of the Arab League in Syria