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.
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]