ATBARA

ătˈbärä, river, NE Africa, rising in NW Ethiopia and flowing c.500 mi (800 km) to the Nile in Sudan. There are few permanent settlements along its banks. The Atbara's water level is very low, except during the rainy season (from June to October). The river is called the Takazze in its early stages in Ethiopia and the Setit in W Ethiopia and E Sudan.

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books on: Atbara  - 182 results

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The Republic of the Sudan: a Regional Geography
Book by K. M. Barbour; University of London, 1961
Subjects: Sudan--Description And Travel
...Mechanized crop production schemes between the Atbara and Rahad rivers. 195...212 83.The Atbara gorge at Khashm el Girba. 213...fought at Abu Hamad, beside the River Atbara, and finally at Kerreri, otherwise known...
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The Labour Movement in the Sudan, 1946-1955
Book by Saad Ed Din Fawzi; Oxford University Press, 1957
Subjects: Labor Movement--Sudan, Labor Unions--Sudan, Labor--Sudan
...mechanical department, Sudan Railways, in Atbara, on the other hand. Subsequent chapters...war-time standard bread basket for a man in Atbara earning less than CE3 basic per month...was voiced by the railway workers in Atbara. In the second place, the employers were...
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The Victorian Soldier in Africa
Book by Edward M. Spiers; Manchester University Press, 2004
Subjects: Africa--History, Military--19th Century, Great Britain--Army, Great Britain--Army--History--19th Century, Great Britain--History
...Rawlinson, as well as Corporal John Far- quharson (1/Seaforth Highlanders), provided sketches from the earlier battle of Atbara (8 April 1898), Lieutenant John Brinton (2/Life Guards/, who was attached to the 2lst Lancers and was wounded in the charge...
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The Nubian Past: An Archaeology of the Sudan
Book by David N. Edwards; Routledge, 2004
Subjects: Archaeology--Sudan, Sudan--Antiquities
...excavations have also begun east of the River Atbara and in the Kassala region (Fattovich 1990...the east and southeast, from the Middle Atbara region and perhaps ultimately the Ethiopian...known is in a small area on the River Atbara near Khasm al Ghirba where Late Palaeolithic...
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The Nile: The Life-Story of a River
Book by Emil Ludwig, Mary H. Lindsay; Viking Press, 1937
Subjects: Africa, East--Description And Travel, Nile River
...which fashion discovers new "circles of civilization every five years, means less to me than the sight of a bedouin on the Atbara, in whose splendid limbs I could admire and honour a mixture of five or six races. Yet even if exact knowledge of such mixtures...
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Mission Not Yet Accomplished: Managing Water Resources in the Nile River Basin
Journal article by Ashok Swain; Journal of International Affairs, Vol. 61, 2008
Subjects: Water resource management, Water--Management, World Bank--Management
...Baro-Akobo (Sobat) 14 percent and the Tekezze (Atbara) 13 percent. (3) On the other hand, the...Blue Nile and Kashm el Girba Dam on the Atbara River. Sudan has also constructed a number...system. Besides the Siteit Dam across Upper Atbara River and the Merowe Multi-Purpose Hydro...
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Flood Frequency and Impacts at Khartoum since the Early Nineteenth Century
Journal article by R.P.D. Walsh, H.R.J. Davies, S.B. Musa; The Geographical Journal, Vol. 160, 1994
Subjects: Floods--Economic aspects, Khartoum, Sudan--Natural disasters, Rain and rainfall--Research
...north along the Nile, particularly at and downstream of the Atbara confluence, was reportedly severe (Hulme and Trilsbach, 1989...of the variable contribution to Nile flow made by the River Atbara, which enters the Nile between Khartoum and the Egyptian border...
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A New Challenge: Water Scarcity in the Arab World
Journal article by Ashok Swain; Arab Studies Quarterly (ASQ), Vol. 20, 1998
Subjects: Arab countries--Water supply, Middle East--Water supply, Water-supply--Middle East
...Blue Nile 59 percent, Baro-Akobo (Sobat) 14 percent, Tekezze (Atbara)(21) 13 percent. The total population of the Nile basin countries...African Studies, vol. 35, no. 4, 1997. 21. The tributary Tekezze-Atbara has parts of its headwater now in Eritrea. 22. Yahia Abdel...
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Horn of Africa
Journal article by T. A. Barringer; Africa, 1998
Subjects: Africa--Bibliography
...The Lincolnshire Regiment at the Atbara, Soldiers of the queen, 94, 1998 12-14...
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The Politicization of Ethnic Sentiments in the Sudan: Implications for Nation-Building
Journal article by Elfatih A. A/Salam; Journal of Third World Studies, Vol. 25, 2008
Subjects: Ethnic groups--Political aspects, Nation building--Analysis, Sudan--Political aspects, Sudan--Social aspects
...In the process, the outlying areas of the country were marginalized. It was not surprising that towns like Khartoum, Medani, Atbara, Port Sudan and Obeid branched out rapidly as commercial and industrial centers. Collateral with that development was a sustained...
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magazine articles on: Atbara  - 3 results

 
 
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Worldaware Business Awards: Award Goes to South African Firm for the First Time
Magazine article; African Business, March 1994
Subjects: Building stone, Ceramics, Construction industry--Achievements and awards, Dam construction, Glass products, Mining industry--Achievements and awards, Palabora Mining Company Ltd.--Achievements and awards, Rio Tinto Zimbabwe--Achievements and awards
...ended laborious manual drilling for water in the bed of the Atbara River. Each hole previously had taken weeks of arduous manual...Dabbura celebrated with a feast. When all 50 communities along the Atbara have boreholes, the rig is to be used for irrigation water also...
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Egypt Ready to Negotiate Nile Waters
Magazine article by Neil Ford; African Business, April 2002
Subjects: Economic development--Africa, Egypt--Natural resources, Nile Valley--International aspects, Water use--Economic aspects
...Nile, from the River Kagera and Lake Victoria in East Africa. Almost all the remaining 85% comes from the Blue Nile and River Atbara in the Ethiopian Highlands. Years of civil war and conflict with Eritrea have caused instability in Ethiopia but the region...
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Nubia: Welcome to "God's Land'
Magazine article; New African, January 2005
...Africa: A Biography of the Continent, writes of Meroi: "The tract of land, 250km broad, lying between the points at which the Atbara and the Blue Nile join the main stream of the White Nile is known as the island of Meroe sic. To the security of distance and...


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newspaper articles on: Atbara  - 2 results

 
 
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Death of a Warrior Nation; (1) This Week's Savage Defence Cuts Sound the Death Knell for the Proud Traditions Which Have Defined Our Island Race for Centuries (2) SATURDAY ESSAY
Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), July 24, 2004
...imperial military triumphs. Back at home, the teeming millions of our cities took up residence in streets named Waterloo Crescent, Atbara Road, Ladysmith Villas, Mafeking Hill, Colenso Gardens. What is more, you can bet that everybody who lived amid their petty...
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Republic of Sudan
Newspaper article; Manila Bulletin, January 2, 2001
Subjects: Sudan
...Nile River System, and fertile soil. Large areas of cultivable land are situated in the region between the Blue Nile and the Atbara and between the Blue Nile and the White Nile. Other cultivable land is in the narrow Nile Valley and in the valleys of the plains...


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encyclopedia articles on: Atbara  - 4 results

 
 
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Atbara
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
ATBARA at bara, river, NE Africa, rising in NW Ethiopia and flowing c.500 mi (800 km) to the Nile in Sudan. There are few permanent settlements along its banks. The Atbaras water level is very low, except during the rainy season (from June to October). The river is called the Takazze in its...
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Atbarah
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
ATBARAH atba r , town (1993 pop. 87,878), NE Sudan, at the junction of the Atbara and Nile rivers. An important rail junction, it is also...on the rail lines. Sudanese trade unionism originated in Atbarah in 1946 with the founding of a workers association among...
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Sudan
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...largest city. Land The main geographical feature of Sudan is the Nile River, which with its tributaries (including the Atbara, Blue Nile, and White Nile rivers) traverses the country from south to north. The Nile system provides irrigation for strips...
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Nile
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...Sudd swamps. Other important tributaries of the Nile are the Atbara and Sobat rivers. The Gezira, or "island," formed between the...on the Blue Nile; and the Kashm-el-Girba Dam (1964) on the Atbara River. The Search for the Niles Source The source of the...


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