Berber, Sudan

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.

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

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]

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

References

1. "Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Berber" . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 3 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 764.
2. Adams, W. H. D. (1885). "'In perils oft': romantic biographies illustrative of the adventurous life". United Kingdom: John Hogg. p. 250.