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  - 172 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
...provide work in a region where there is marked under-employment. Atbara, Ed Damer and Berber Atbara was chosen as the headquarters of the Sudan railway system even before the Atbara river had been bridged 1899 , and when the Port Sudan line was...
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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
...A Horncastrian at the Battle of the Atbara', Horncastle News and South Lindsey...p. 2; 'Letter from a Nairn Man at Atbara', Nairnshire Telegraph, 25 May 1898...A Horn- castrian at the Battle of Atbara', p. 5; Brig.-Gen. A. J. McNeill...
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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
...of which emerged as early as 1934 in Atbara and the second in 1935 in Khartoum...the Technical School Old Boys Club in Atbara that the Workers Affairs Association was born. Some account of Atbara, the headquarters town of Sudan Railways...
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Managing Water for Peace in the Middle East: Alternative Strategies
Book by Masahiro Murakami; United Nations University Press, 1995
Subjects: Water Resources Development--Middle East, Water-Supply--Political Aspects--Middle East
...485 million m3 day (68%), - from the Atbara, 157 million m3 (22%). The minimum...7.5 million m3 (17%), - from the Atbara, none. During the high-flow stage...by the Blue Nile, and the least by the Atbara, while the White Nile is the more important...
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Egypt in Revolution: An Economic Analysis
Book by Charles Issawi; Oxford University Press, 1963
Subjects: Egypt--Economic Conditions
...Nile have been swollen from three main sources: the Atbara and Blue Nile originating in Abyssinia, and the White...met the Blue Nile, flowing from Lake Tana, and at Atbara by the Atbara river, after which no further tributaries are received...
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journal articles on: Atbara  - 12 results

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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
...Sobat) 14 percent and the Tekezze (Atbara) 13 percent. (3) On the other hand...Blue Nile and Kashm el Girba Dam on the Atbara River. Sudan has also constructed a number...Besides the Siteit Dam across Upper Atbara River and the Merowe Multi-Purpose Hydro...
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"Transborder" Exchanges of People, Things, and Representations: Revisiting the Conflict between Mahdist Sudan and Christian Ethiopia, 1885-1889*
Journal article by Iris Seri-Hersch; The International Journal of African Historical Studies, Vol. 43, 2010
Subjects: Colonies & territories, Military history, Religion
...empire.4 To the north, the border zone spreading from the Atbara River to the Rahad tributary of the Blue Nile was not affected...nothing else than plundering, devastating villages along the Atbara river, which had unwillingly been submitted to the Mahdiyya...
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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
...Nile 59 percent, Baro-Akobo (Sobat) 14 percent, Tekezze (Atbara)(21) 13 percent. The total population of the Nile basin...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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The Wellcome Tropical Research Laboratories in Khartoum (1903-1934): an Experiment in Development
Journal article by Ahmed Awad Abdel-Hameed; Medical History, Vol. 41, 1997
Subjects: A Balfour, A J Chalmers, R G Archibald
...Regional laboratories were established in Wad Medani, Port Sudan, Atbara and Berber. Economic Development, Epidemics, and Publications...1.038 acres) intended for the cultivation of cotton. In Atbara, where the main Sudan Railways workshops were located, a small...
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The Art of Reperceiving Scenarios and the Future
Journal article by P. H. Liotta, Tomothy E. Somes; Naval War College Review, Vol. 56, 2003
Subjects: Military readiness, Military strategy, Risk assessment
...the stream showed dominance by the green-brown waters of the Atbara, which rushed down from the Ethiopian highlands, then the...engineering, five-hundred miles downstream from where the fierce Atbara joined the Nile. Now if priests had still kept vigil at their...
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Gunboats on the Nile
Magazine article by Emory F. Nolan; Sea Classics, Vol. 37, April 2004
...Kitchener established an advance position at Fort Atbara, about 140-mi from Khartoum. By the end...no choice but to advance, reinforce Fort Atbara, and extend the railway there; thus Fort Atbara became, ahead of schedule, the main concentration...
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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...celebrated with a feast. When all 50 communities along the Atbara have boreholes, the rig is to be used for irrigation water...
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Book Provides Additional Insight into Bin Laden's Past
Magazine article by Youssef Aboul-Enein; Infantry, Vol. 96, March 2007
Subjects: Arabs, Book reviews, Construction companies, Essays, Fund raising, Military history, Pipelines, Terrorism, Volunteers
...transactions, with Bin Laden evolving into an emergency bank fund for the sanctioned Sudanese government: * Completing the Atbara-Khartoum Road (500 kilometers). * Opening Al-Shamal Bank with $50 million in return for 1 million acres of land in Korfodan...
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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
...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
...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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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...
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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
...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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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...
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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 Blue Nile; and the Kashm-el-Girba Dam (1964) on the Atbara River. The Search for the Niles Source The source of the Nile...
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Sudan
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...the 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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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 the headquarters of Sudan railway system and has large railroad workshops...


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