Berber, Sudan

Berber Arabic: بربر‎
Town
Berber Location in Sudan
Coordinates: 18°01′50″N 33°59′36″E / 18.03056°N 33.99333°E / 18.03056; 33.99333Coordinates: 18°01′50″N 33°59′36″E / 18.03056°N 33.99333°E / 18.03056; 33.99333
Country	Sudan
Population  (1989)
• Total	16,650

Berber (Arabic: بربر‎, romanized: barbar) is a town in the River Nile state of northern Sudan, 50 kilometres (31 mi) 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]

The first line of defense against the Ottoman Empire occurred in this city. Some attempts also occurred in Dar Mahas and Dongola.^{[citation needed]}

The tribes inhabiting this city are mainly Ja'Alin with fewer numbers of Ababda.^{[citation needed]}

English explorer Samuel Baker passed through Berber on his discovery of Albert Nyanza Lake, in 1861.^[2]

Berber is one of the first Sudanese towns that knew modern schooling. Many of the elder generation leaders were educated in Berber intermediate school.^{[citation needed]}

Amîr Tâdj as sirr cited this city in his book, أرض السودان (ard as Sudân).^{[citation needed]}

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