Tuti Island

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The Tuti Island (Arabic توتي, Tūtī DMG ) is a crescent-shaped inland island of the Nile at the confluence of the White and Blue Nile in Sudan.

The nearly eight -square-mile island lies in the middle of the Tri-City region of Omdurman in the West, Khartoum in the south and al - Khartoum Bahri (Khartoum North ) in the northeast. It is since the end of the 15th century, far more populated than the cities of Khartoum and Omdurman, founded in the 18th century. The inhabitants of the island, which are locally called Tawwata belong mainly to the Nubian ethnic group of the Maha whose native language is a dialect of Nobiin. While the population of the towns increased tenfold in the years 1956-1990, the population since the 1990s, the population increased on the island only from 5851 to 9416th Only grows to a small extent also by immigration.

The only village has a heavily built-up core area and some houses collections of something distant. The oldest building of the town is centered around the mosque. The buildings are einstockig and are, as for the nordsudanesische traditional settlement patterns usual, with a courtyard within a two-meter high ramparts. The bricks used in the construction are fired on the island. The population lives by farming on irrigated fields, the fertile soil is the result of deposits of Nile mud. The agricultural land, of which there are few in the vicinity of Khartoum, limit the further expansion of the village. Major crops include vegetables, citrus fruits and bananas. The irrigation of the island edge zones is done in August / September through annual flooding of the Nile, otherwise by diesel pumps.

By March 2009, the Tuti Island was only accessible from Khartoum via a ferry. Since then, the Tuti Bridge leads to the eastern tip of the island. The Tuti Island is the unusual case of an early populated and strategically placed island that has not been the focus of the later city was founded on the mainland.