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...

The Suakin Expedition was either of two British-Indian military expeditions, led by Major-General Sir Gerald Graham, to Suakin in Sudan, with the intention...

force near Suakin, a chief port of Sudan. The Mahdist force, under Osman Digna, had advanced on Suakin with an intention to invest it. From Suakin, General...

inland from the port of Suakin on the Red Sea coast of Sudan. A contingent of some 3,000 troops from the British and Indian "Suakin Field Force" led by Major...

The Suakin-Berber railway on the Red Sea coastal region in Sudan was a short-lived military project that never reached completion. Its construction began...

The Battle of Suakin of 1541 was an armed encounter that took place in 1541 in the city of Suakin (Suaquém in Portuguese), held by the Ottoman Empire...

point. It has an average depth of 490 m (1,610 ft), and in the central Suakin Trough it reaches its maximum depth of 3,040 m (9,970 ft). Approximately...

15°00′N 30°00′E / 15.000°N 30.000°E / 15.000; 30.000 Sudan is located in Northeast Africa. It is bordered by Egypt to the north, the Red Sea to the...

the Red Sea basin. On the Northeast Africa littoral, the eyalet comprised Suakin and their hinterlands. Like Ottoman control in North Africa, Yemen, Bahrain...

would give Egypt control of the Red Sea port of Suakin, but an amendment on 10 July 1899 gave Suakin to Sudan instead. On 4 November 1902, the UK drew...

Hadendoa tribe of the Beja people. His birthplace is not documented, but Suakin was said to be the town, where he was born. He was originally known as Osman...

The Suakin Archipelago is a large group of islets found in Sudan in the Red Sea, which has been proposed for IUCN category II, national park. This site...

Lieutenant-General Sir Gerald Graham, including an Indian contingent, to Suakin in March 1885. Though successful in the two actions it fought, it failed...

Gobir (Demonym: Gobirawa) was a city-state in what is now Nigeria. Founded by the Hausa in the 11th century, Gobir was one of the seven original kingdoms...

650-kilometre (400 mi) trip on camelback to Suakin, which was the largest port of Sudan. In March 1885 they left Suakin for Italy and arrived at the port of...

February 1929) was a Royal Navy officer who took an active part in the Suakin Expedition and who lost a hand as the result of an explosion at the torpedo...

southern Eritrea. The origin of the Balaw is thought to be somewhere along the Suakin area of eastern Sudan. During the second wave of the Beja migrations into...

of Singapore. Suakin Island – On 17 January 2018, as part of a rapprochement with Sudan, Turkey was granted a 99-year lease over Suakin Island. Turkey...

and the source of 90% of the country's international trade. Port of Digna Suakin Red Sea State 19°07′N 37°20′E / 19.117°N 37.333°E / 19.117; 37.333 (Port...

clasp The Nile 1884–85 Suakin 1885 (1 March – 14 May 1885) Tofrek (22 March 1885) Only awarded in conjunction with clasp Suakin 1885 Gemaizah 1888 (20...

harbour in 1909, Suakin fell into disrepair, with only some ruins of its former buildings left. In his book on The Coral Buildings of Suakin, Jean-Pierre...

among the local population. Accordingly, a second expedition departed from Suakin on 10 March in order to defeat the Mahdists definitively. The force was...

Safita al-Ghunomab Saqiaah Sennar or Sannar Shendi or Shandi Sindscha Singa Suakin Tabat or Al Shaikh Abdulmahmood Taiyara Tambul Wad An Nora Wad Banda Wad...

Makuria collapsed. Coastal areas from southern Sudan up to the port city of Suakin was succeeded by the Adal Sultanate in the fifteenth century. To the south...

the roads which come from Atbara and Kassala, meet, and continue towards Suakin and Port Sudan. It is also a junction station on the mainline of the Sudan...

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...

assistance of Gordon, which, however, was not accepted. Graham led a second Suakin Field Force which arrived at the port on 12 March 1885. Its purpose was...

along the rift of the mid-oceanic ridge Salton Trough South Shetland Trough Suakin Trough in the Red Sea Timor Trough Walker Lane Oceanic basin Einsele, Gerhard...

Park 1,084,600 2,680,000 Dongonab Bay-Marsa Waiai 280,000 690,000 Khor Abu Habil Inner Delta 946,409 2,338,630 Suakin-Gulf of Agig 1,125,000 2,780,000...

South Wales Contingent served in Sudan with British forces as part of the Suakin Expedition in 1885. Consisting of an infantry battalion, an artillery battery...