Berber, Sudan Explained

Official Name:Berber
Native Name:Arabic: بربر
Settlement Type:Town
Pushpin Map:Sudan
Pushpin Label Position:bottom
Pushpin Map Caption:Location in Sudan
Subdivision Type:Country
Subdivision Name: Sudan
Subdivision Type1:State
Subdivision Name1:River Nile
Unit Pref:Imperial
Population As Of:1989
Population Total:16,650
Population Blank1 Title:Ethnicities
Population Blank2 Title:Religions
Coordinates:18.0306°N 33.9933°W

Berber (Arabic: بربر|barbar) is a town in the River Nile state of northern Sudan, north of Atbara, near the junction of the Atbara River and the Nile.

Overview

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 Lake, in 1861.[2]

Notes and References

  1. "Berber . 3 . 764.
  2. Web site: Adams. W. H. D.. 1885. 'In perils oft': romantic biographies illustrative of the adventurous life.. United Kingdom: John Hogg. 250.