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The largest city of the Nubian Desert is Port Sudan, at the eastern end of the desert on the Red Sea. Other important cities of the Nubian Desert are Atbara on the river of the same name and Massawa on the Red Sea. The town of Abidiya is on the Nile river. This desert is the only habitat for the critically endangered palm Medemia argun, which ...
Whereas Arabic was once only learned by Nubian men who travelled for work, it is increasingly being learned by Nubian women who have access to school, radio and television. Nubian women are working outside the home in increasing numbers. [56] During the Yom Kippur War of 1973, Egypt employed Nubian people as Code talkers. [57] [58] [59]
Nubia (/ ˈ nj uː b i ə /, Nobiin: Nobīn, [2] Arabic: النُوبَة, romanized: an-Nūba) is a region along the Nile river encompassing the confluence of the Blue and White Niles (in Khartoum in central Sudan), and the area between the first cataract of the Nile (south of Aswan in southern Egypt) or more strictly, Al Dabbah.
Beginning around the 10th millennium BC, this region of the Nubian Desert began to receive more rainfall, filling a lake. [2] Early people may have been attracted to the region due to the source of water. Archaeological findings indicate the presence of small seasonal camps in the region dating to the 9th–8th millennia BC. [2]
Ariab (Arabic: أرياب) is a region of Sudan, located in the Nubian Desert. It is inhabited by the Beja people, and is home to the country's only commercial gold mine, run by French giant Areva. Gold mining has historically been crucially important for the desert region since Pharonic times. [1] [2]
Wadi Halfa has a hot desert climate (Köppen climate classification BWh) typical of the Nubian Desert.Wadi Halfa receives each year the highest mean amount of bright sunshine, with an extreme value of 4,300 h, [3] which is equal to 97–98 % of possible sunshine. [4]
The Nuba people are indigenous inhabitants of southern Sudan. The Nuba are made up of 50 various indigenous ethnic groups who inhabit the Nuba Mountains of South Kordofan state in Sudan , [ 4 ] encompassing multiple distinct people that speak different languages which belong to at least two unrelated language families .
The Bishari live in the eastern part of the Nubian Desert in Sudan and southern Egypt.They reside in the Atabai (also spelled Atbai) area between the Nile River and the Red Sea, north of the Amarar and south of the Ababda people between the Nubian Desert and the Nile Valley, an area of limestone, mountains, with sandstone plateaus.