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Map of Sudan (after 2011). The Nuba Mountains are labeled in Southern Kordofan. The Nuba Mountains (Arabic: جبال النوبة), also referred to as the Nuba Hills, are an area located in South Kordofan, Sudan. The area is home to a group of indigenous ethnic groups known collectively as the Nuba peoples.
English: Clickable map of the various language families, subfamilies and languages spoken in the Nuba Mountains in the south of Sudan. These include the Katla, Rashad, Lafofa, Talodi–Heiban and Kadu languages, which are not shown to be linguistically related but are geographically grouped together as the Kordofanian languages.
Clickable map of the language families, subfamilies and languages spoken in the Nuba Mountains. The Nuba Mountains, located in the West Kordofan and South Kordofan states in the south of Sudan, are inhabited by a diverse set of populations (collectively known as Nuba peoples) speaking various languages not closely related to one another.
At that time, al-Hillu was the governor of the Nuba Mountains. During the course of the following months, relief supplies from the UN were airdropped to stem the starvation of many in the mountains. The ceasefire in Nuba Mountains was the foundation for the Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) signed in January 2005. This fragile peace remains ...
Jebel ed-Dair, an isolated escarpment in the northeastern Nuba Mountains Tagle (Taglena, Kororo, Kururu) Jebel Kururu, in the Kadaro Massif Kadaro (Kadero, Kadaru, Kodoro, Kodhin, Kodhinniai) 6,000: Kadaro Massif Koldegi: south of the Kadaro Massif Dabatna (Kaalu) Jebel Dabatna, located to the southwest of the Kadaro Massif Habila
A rebel group controlling Sudan's Nuba Mountains and parts of Blue Nile state said on Wednesday that the local population was experiencing a hunger catastrophe. The Sudan People's Liberation ...
Kordofan covers an area of some 376,145 km 2 (146,932 miles²), with an estimated population in 2000 of 3.6 million (3 million in 1983). It is largely an undulating plain, with the Nuba Mountains in the southeast quarter.
The eastern Nuba Mountains is younger Pan-African age crust, likely a klippe or a small ocean basin. A strip of tonalite, granodiorite and peralkaline granites, formed from low-grade metasediments, metavolcanics, and granitoids at the time of the Pan-African orogeny occur along the eastern bank of the Nile River. These rocks were intruded by ...