Wadi Halfa Salient
22.090729931.4044189Koordinaten: 22 ° 5 ' 27 " N, 31 ° 24' 16" E
Wadi Halfa Salient (from Wadi Halfa, Arabic وادي حلفا, DMG Wadi Halfa, a nearby Sudanese city 22 kilometers south of the border, as well as Engl. Salient = bulge ) is the unofficial name of a bulge of the international border between Sudan and Egypt along the Nile to the north.
History
1899, the border between the Anglo -Egyptian Sudan and Egypt in the Anglo -Egyptian condominium Convention at the 22nd parallel was established. However, access to Wadi Halfa Salient and thus the management of the local population was from Sudan lighter, so that in 1902 a supplementary agreement to the original agreement by the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, a new, expanded northwards, administrative boundary has been established that the Wadi Halfa Salient einbezog in the Sudanese government Area.
In addition to the Wadi Halfa Salient still soaked the Hala'ib triangle on the coast of the Red Sea north to Sudan from the original boundary from, and immediately west of it the much smaller area around Bir Tawil, which deviates to the south of the original boundary.
Political situation
Egypt is on the more favorable to the original boundaries of 1899 along the parallel of 22 degrees north and therefore claimed beside the Wadi Halfa Salient and the Hala'ib Triangle, while south of the original limit does not claim Bir Tawil. Since the Sudan vice versa claims the administrative boundary of 1902, he lays claim to the same areas as Egypt. The three on the latitude 22 degrees north deviating areas, however, are affected differently by the claims. While the comparatively large and equipped with sea coast Hala'ib Triangle was militarily occupied by Egypt and Bir Tawil is claimed by neither country, no clashes took place because of the extensive flooding in the Wadi Halfa Salient.
Geography
The Wadi Halfa Salient is about 9 km wide and extends on both sides of the original run of the Nile 25 km far to the north like fingers in Egyptian territory, with a total area of 210 km ². Through the construction of the Aswan Dam and the flooding of Lake Nasser ( called in Sudanese Nubia page Lake), a large part of the Nile River was flooded in this area. Most villages in the area and the ancient city of Faras ( where the cathedral of Faras was ) went under, and the people were resettled in part to New Halfa in the Butana region.
After a detailed map from 1953, ie before the flooding, could a total of 52 villages in the area include, of which 24 are west of the Nile ( of which 17 are referred to by name), 29 east of the Nile ( of which 12 are referred to by name), and an unnamed village on the former Faras island in the Nile. The largest city and the only one with more than 2,000 inhabitants was Dubaira / دبيرة.
There remains a land area of only about 30 to 40 km ² in the Wadi Halfa Salient, for the most part on the east bank of Lake Nasser, a barren, almost devoid of vegetation rock desert. An overlay the map with current NASA World Wind satellite imagery shows the extent of flooding in the area of Wadi Halfa Salient. All recorded on card villages disappeared without exception in the floods.