Er Roseires Explained

Official Name:Er Roseires
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:Blue Nile
Unit Pref:Imperial
Population As Of:2006
Population Total:215,857
Population Blank1 Title:Ethnicities
Population Blank2 Title:Religions
Coordinates:11.85°N 57°W

Er Roseires (Arabic: الروصيرص|al-Rūṣayriṣ) is a town in eastern Sudan 60 km from the border with Ethiopia.

Lord Prudhoe mentions this town in the 1829 diary he kept while travelling in the Sennar. At the time it was the residence of one Sheikh Suliman, ruler of the lower reach of the Blue Nile (Baḥr al-Azraq), for which he paid 1500 ounces of gold to the Egyptians out of his revenues.[1]

The Roseires Dam is located just upstream of the town.

Climate

El Roseires features a Tropical Savanna Climate (Aw)

References

  1. Lord Prudhoe, "Extracts from Private Memoranda Kept by Lord Prudhoe on a Journey from Cairo to Sennar,in 1829, Describing the Peninsula of Sennar", Journal of the Royal Geographical Society, 5 (1835), p. 52

11.85°N 57°W