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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 ...
Nabta Playa was once a large endorheic basin in the Nubian Desert, located approximately 800 kilometers south of modern-day Cairo [1] or about 100 kilometers west of Abu Simbel in southern Egypt, [2] 22.51° north, 30.73° east. [3] Today the region is characterized by numerous archaeological sites. [2]
Red Sea State (Arabic: ولاية البحر الأحمر Wilayat Al Baḥr al Aḥmar) is one of the 18 states of Sudan. [4] It has an area of 212,800 km 2 [5] and an estimated population of 1,482,053 in 2018. Port Sudan is the capital of the state. [5] Sudan claims, but does not control, the Halaib Triangle, a region disputed between Sudan ...
There was a constant movement of Nubian immigration into Egypt, there has been evidence of artefacts such as cemeteries, potteries and some indication of Nubian settlements, due to their immigration the Nubians would either return to their home countries or be forced to integrate into Egpytian society and leave behind their former lives.
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 town was the starting-point of the old caravan route across the Nubian Desert to the Red Sea at Suakin and flagged in importance after the 1906 completion of a spur of the Sudan Military Railway to Suakin from a junction closer to the Atbara River. [1] English explorer Samuel Baker passed through Berber on his discovery of Albert Nyanza ...
It is located underground in the Eastern end of the Sahara desert and spans the political boundaries of four countries in north-eastern Africa. [1] NSAS covers a land area spanning just over 2 million km 2 , including north-western Sudan , north-eastern Chad , south-eastern Libya , and most of Egypt .
Located on the Nile, around 100 miles (160 km) south of the Egyptian border, it is part of the village of Kulb. Until the fifteenth century, Kulubnarti was a remote area. It was one of the last known refuges for Christians in Nubia , while Islam spread to the south.