an-Nahud
النهود an-Nahud |
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Coordinates | 12 ° 42 ′ N , 28 ° 26 ′ E | |
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Country | Sudan | |
Gharb Kurdufan | ||
ISO 3166-2 | SD-GK | |
Residents | 87,000 (2010) |
An-Nahud ( Arabic النهود) or en-Nahud (also an-Nuhud ) is a city in Sudan . It is located in Dar Hamar , the area of the Hamar ethnic group , in the savannah southwest of al-Ubayyid in the state of Gharb Kurdufan . According to a calculation, an-Nahud has around 87,000 inhabitants in 2010.
an-Nahud is a center of trade in gum arabic , which is extracted in the area and is exported via al-Ubayyid and Bur Sudan . Peanuts also became an important cash crop in the area in the second half of the 20th century .
The city has an airport ( IATA : NUD; ICAO : HSNH).
history
West African pilgrims on their way to Mecca established the Sufi order of the Tijaniyya in an-Nahud in the 1850s .
Climate table
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Average monthly temperatures and rainfall for an-Nahud
Source: wetterkontor.de
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Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Mustafa Babiker Ahmed: Primary export crop production and the origins of the ecological crisis in Kordofan: the case of Dar Hamar. In: Douglas H. Johnson, David M. Anderson (Eds.): The Ecology of Survival. Case Studies from Northeast African History. Lester Crook Academic Publishing, London 1988, ISBN 1-87091-500-3 , pp. 115-134.
- ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of the original dated December 29, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. World Gazetteer.
- ↑ Guillaume Pitron: Gum arabic. Unknown and indispensable. In: Le Monde diplomatique , April 2011.
- ↑ Awad al-Sid al-Karsani: Religion, Ethnicity and Class: the Role of the Tijāniyya Order in An-Nahūd Town. In: Endre Stiansen, Michael Kevane (Eds.): Kordofan invaded. Peripheral Incorporation and Social Transformation in Islamic Africa (= Social, Economic, and Political Studies of the Middle East and Asia. Vol. 63). Brill, Leiden et al. 1998, ISBN 90-04-11049-6 , pp. 180-196, here p. 183.