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Duk is a county in Jonglei, South Sudan. [1] In May 2016, it was divided into three counties which were Duk Padiet, Duk Payuel, and Panyang. [ 2 ] In 2017, the governor of Jonglei State added Duk Pagaak County, totaling four counties in former Duk County.
Jonglei state comprises nine counties: Bor, Akobo, Ayod, Uror, Duk, Nyirol, Pigi, Twic East, and Fangak. Jonglei State is the largest state by area before reorganisation, with an area of approximately 122,581 km 2, [2] as well as the most populous according to the 2008 census conducted in present-day South Sudan's second period of autonomy. The ...
(cultural) Suakin was an important medieval and Ottoman-era port. It has fine houses and mosques. [10] Kerma: Northern: 1994 (cultural) Kerma was the centre of the Kerma culture in the 3rd and 2nd millennia BCE. There are remains of mudbrick buildings and a large cemetery with a funerary chapel. [11] Old Dongola: Northern: 1994 (cultural)
They call themselves Kwanim Pa and are culturally and linguistically related to neighboring communities, such as the Gumuz and the Kwama from the Sudan-Ethiopia borderland. Due to the recent war in southern Sudan they have been forced to emigrate to other countries, especially Ethiopia. Following the peace agreement in 2005, some Uduk have ...
Sudan Memory is an online archive and cultural heritage project, provided by an international group of partners with the aim of conserving and promoting Sudanese cultural heritage. In the course of the project, digital reproductions of books and newspapers, photographs and films, visual art and architecture, as well as of other cultural objects ...
Dau was born in the Dinka tribe in Sudan in 1974. In 1987, his village, Duk Payuel in Duk County, Jonglei, was attacked by government troops during the Second Sudanese Civil War. The violence separated his family, and Dau travelled on foot for three months until reaching his relatives in Ethiopia. [1]
Lith Payam borders on Kongor Payam, Pibor County, Duk County, and the White Nile. Lith Payam headquarters is located at Wernyol City. Two clans known as Abek and Adhiok inhab Lith Payam. Adhiok society is a southern Sudanese community found in Lith Payam (shared by Adhiok and Abek) in Twich-East County and in Jonglei state of South Sudan.
Map of Sudan from 2011 with South Sudan independent. The history of Sudan refers to the territory that today makes up Republic of the Sudan and the state of South Sudan, which became independent in 2011. The territory of Sudan is geographically part of a larger African region, also known by the term "Sudan".