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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.
In addition to sites inscribed on the World Heritage List, member states can maintain a list of tentative sites that they may consider for nomination. Nominations for the World Heritage List are only accepted if the site was previously listed on the tentative list. [9] Sudan maintains 15 properties on its tentative list. [3]
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 ...
In 1927, Austrian photographer and travel writer Hugo Bernatzik travelled by boat and his own automobile to southern Sudan. He returned with 1,400 photographs and 30,000 ft. of cinema film [17] and published his impressions and ethnographic pictures of Shilluk, Nuer and Nuba people in 1930 in a popular travelogue, first in German and later in English titled Gari Gari: The Call of the African ...
One of the geographically largest countries in Africa with about 43 million people, [1] numerous ethnic groups and more than 100 native languages and dialects, [2] Sudan's history is rich with a diverse cultural and documentary heritage that has been preserved in numerous private and public collections all over the country. These collections ...
The visual arts of Sudan encompass the historical and contemporary production of objects made by the inhabitants of today's Republic of the Sudan and specific to their respective cultures. This encompasses objects from cultural traditions of the region in North-East Africa historically referred to as the Sudan , including the southern regions ...
Cultural history of Sudan (1 C, 6 P) L. Languages of Sudan (9 C, 64 P) M. ... Pages in category "Culture of Sudan" The following 29 pages are in this category, out of ...
According to Shilluk folk history and neighboring accounts, the kingdom was founded by Nyikang, who probably lived in the second half of the 15th century. A Nilotic people , the Shilluk managed to establish a centralized kingdom that reached its apogee in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, during the decline of the northern Funj Sultanate .