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    Suakin (redirect from Sawakin)
    Suakin or Sawakin (Arabic: سواكن, romanized: Sawākin, Beja: Oosook) is a port city in northeastern Sudan, on the west coast of the Red Sea. It was formerly...
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    Elma'din, Halayib, Haya, Sawakin, Sinkat, Gunob Awlieb, Derodieb, Tokar and Ageeg. Port Sudan (Capital) Gebiet Elmadin Halaib Haya Sawakin Sinkat Gunob Awlieb...
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    (or governor) of not only Jeddah, but also Sawakin and Habesh, and he kept custom-house officers at Sawakin and Massawa. When Muhammad Ali successfully...
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  • Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 14 April 2019. Sa’id as-Sawakin at Olympedia v t e...
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  • near Tokar. The name is said to mean "patrician." They became princes Sawakin since 664 AH under Mamluk and the Othman Caliphate.[citation needed] They...
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    government eventually ordered him to leave. His men left via Kassala and Sawakin, but not before helping put down the mutiny of the 4th Regiment at Kassala...
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    Ansar had begun to move into the southern region. In all of Sudan, only Sawakin, reinforced by Indian army troops, and Wadi Halfa on the northern frontier...
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    Aladdin Pasha Siddiq, Wali of Massawa 1871 to 1871 Ahmad Mumtaz Pasha (at Sawakin)    (born 1825 – died 1874) 1871 to 1871 Hajj Aman 1871 to 1871 Ala al-Din...
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    was destroyed in 1867. In the northeast of Sudan lies the old city of Sawakin. It is now in ruins. It is said to be in restoration now and will reopen...
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    Iraq), the Shammar Toga, some of the Dulaim, the Zafir, the Dawwar, the Sawakin, the al-Muntafiq confederation, the Bani Hasan (of the Bani Malik), the...
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    000 camels to the Ethiopian Empire. One year later the Ottomans occupied Sawakin, which beforehand was associated with Sennar. It seems that to counter...
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    northern towns and Red Sea ports, such as Khartoum, Kassala, Sannar, and Sawakin. The evacuation of Egyptian troops and officials, and other foreigners...
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  • (Port of Digna) SDSWA 6.4 12020 Medium-sized port, also known as port of Sawakin, Suakin, Prince Osman Digna, Osman Digna. Port of Marsa Bashayer Port Sudan...
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  • Mardin (Mārdīn), Turkey Hormuz (New Hurmuz), Iran Lar (Lār), Iran Suakin (Sawākin), Sudan Zeila (Zaila'), Somalia Mogadishu (Maqdashaw), Somalia Mombasa...
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    provinces in East Africa were established: Massawa, Habesh (Abyssia) and Sawakin (Suakin). The ports around the Arabian Peninsula were also secured. With...
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    brought down in the Turco-Egyptian period. It is named after the city of Sawakin. This khayt lacks a specific personality or costume, and does not appear...
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  • al-Yaʿḳūbī, al-Hamdānī and Yāḳūt al-Rūmī. Before the rise of ʿAydhāb and Sawākin, Bāḍiʿ was the gateway to the Sūdān for the Arabs. The merchants of Bāḍiʿ...
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    Nimeiri government announced a plan to construct a new deep-water port at Sawakin, about twenty kilometers south of Port Sudan. Construction of a new port...
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    (2008). "The Origin and Development of the Sudanese Ports ('Aydhâb, Bâ/di', Sawâkin) in the early Islamic Period". Chroniques Yéménites. 15: 92–110. doi:10...
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  • began on the Red Sea Free-Trade Zone between Port Sudan and the port of Sawakin in July 1999. The project was designed to cover 600 square kilometers....
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    2006, she was renamed Sara 3 and operated on a route between Jeddah and Sawakin. She was sold in June 2009 to Indian breakers for scrapping. Mullay, A...
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    a medical mission in Old Cairo but also initiated missions in Arabia, Sawakin, Omdurman, Khartoum, and along the Nile. Harpur was born in Dublin, Ireland...
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    Bedouin brigands through central Sudan, following them to the port town of Sawakin, then westwards to the Atbara, which they followed upstream until reaching...
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    2007 The Origin and Development of the Sudanese Ports (‘Aydhâb, Bâ/di ‘, Sawâkin) in the early Islamic Period (Journal Article in Chroniques Yéménites)...
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    boats, motors, and equipment available to fishermen. A new ice plant at Sawakin provided local fishermen with ice for their catch. By 2000-2001, about...
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    been an Arab interpreter in the British service for twenty-five years in Sawakin, Egypt and Sudan, at the time of the Mahdist movement. He came into disagreement...
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    before permitting them to enter his kingdom. The explorers travelled from Sawakin on the Red Sea over Khartum, through Darfur, south along Lake Chad, through...
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    did not reach more remote areas. Port Sudan opened in 1906, replacing Sawakin as the country's principal outlet to the sea. In 1911 the Sudanese government...
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  • in tension (almushaddadāt), relaxation (al-mulayyanāt) or stillness (al-sawākin) at every stage of shooting. This was an influential innovation picked...
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    Indian stamps are also known to have been used in the same area, postmarked Sawakin or Souakin, between 1884 and 1899. On 1 March 1897, contemporary Egyptian...
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