Northeast Africa Explained

Northeast Africa, or Northeastern Africa, or Northern East Africa as it was known in the past, is a geographic regional term used to refer to the countries of Africa situated in and around the Red Sea. The region is intermediate between North Africa and East Africa, and encompasses the Horn of Africa (Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, and Somalia), as well as Egypt, Libya, South Sudan and Sudan.^{[1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7]} The region has a very long history of habitation with fossil finds from the early hominids to modern human and is one of the most culturally and linguistically diverse regions of the world, being the home to many civilizations and located on an important trade route that connects multiple continents.^{[8] [9] [10] [11] [12]}

See also

• East Africa
• Horn of Africa
• North Africa
• Ancient Egypt
• Ancient Libya
• Nubia
• Rauso
  • Aromata Barbaria
• Macrobia
• Aethiopia
• Land of Punt
• Kingdom of Kush
• Kingdom of Aksum
• Ancient Somali city-states
• Periplus of the Erythraean Sea

Notes and References

1. White . Donald . White . Arthur P. . 1996 . Coastal Sites of Northeast Africa: The Case Against Bronze Age Ports . Journal of the American Research Center in Egypt . 33 . 11–30 . 10.2307/40000602 . 0065-9991.
2. Swain . Ashok . Ethiopia, the Sudan, and Egypt: The Nile River Dispute . The Journal of Modern African Studies . December 1997 . 35 . 4 . 675–694 . 10.1017/S0022278X97002577 . 154735027 . en . 1469-7777.
3. Book: Sadr . Karim . The Development of Nomadism in Ancient Northeast Africa . 30 January 2017 . University of Pennsylvania Press . 978-1-5128-1854-3 . en.
4. Book: Schandelmeier . Heinz . Thorweihe . Ulf . Geoscientific Research in Northeast Africa . 14 December 2017 . CRC Press . 978-1-351-44524-5 . en.
5. "Northeast Africa is neither geographically or climatically uniform. Internally it varies widely in altitude, rainfall patterns, river systems, soil types and vegetation cover. In most historical studies the region is also further divided according to strict cultural and political boundaries. It is unusual, for instance, to compare the Sudan with the countries of East Africa, or Ethiopia with anything but itself. Yet the study of the history of ecological relationships makes possible, at the same time that it requires, a recognition of a broader outline to the region which not only acknowledges, but knits together its diverse range of societies".Book: Johnson . Douglas H. . Anderson . David M. . The Ecology Of Survival: Case Studies From Northeast African History . 26 June 2019 . Routledge . 978-1-000-31615-5 . 1–15 . en.
6. Book: Reid . Richard J. . Frontiers of Violence in North-East Africa: Genealogies of Conflict Since C.1800 . 24 March 2011 . Oxford University Press . 978-0-19-921188-3 . 1–25 . en.
7. Kendie . Daniel . Northeast Africa and the World Economic Order . Northeast African Studies . 1988 . 10 . 1 . 69–82 . 43661171 . 0740-9133.
8. Book: Mitchell. Peter. The Oxford Handbook of African Archaeology. Lane. Paul. 2013-07-04. OUP Oxford. 978-0-19-162615-9. en.
9. Book: Klees. Frank. New light on the Northeast African past : current prehistoric research: Contributions to a symposium, Cologne 1990. Kuper. Rudolph. 1992-01-01. Heinrich-Barth-Institut. en.
10. Book: Hepburn. H. Randall. Honeybees of Africa. Radloff. Sarah E.. 2013-03-14. Springer Science & Business Media. 978-3-662-03604-4. en.
11. Book: Daniel, Kendie. NORTHEAST AFRICA AND THE WORLD ECONOMIC ORDER. 1988. Michigan, US. 69–82.
12. Project MUSE. (2020). Northeast African Studies. Retrieved March 22, 2020. "This distinguished journal is devoted to the scholarly analysis of Ethiopia, Eritrea, Djibouti, Somalia, and Sudan, as well as the Nile Valley, the Red Sea, and the lands adjacent to both."