an-Nahud

النهود an-Nahud
an-Nahud
Coordinates	12 ° 42 ′  N , 28 ° 26 ′  E Coordinates: 12 ° 42 ′  N , 28 ° 26 ′  E
Basic data
Country	Sudan
State	Gharb Kurdufan
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

an-Nahud
Climate diagram
J F. M. A. M. J J A. S. O N D.     0   32 14th     0   33 15th     0   36 18th     2   39 21st     24   39 23     44   37 24     113   33 23     134   32 22nd     85   34 22nd     21st   36 21st     0   35 18th     0   32 14th Temperature in ° C ,  precipitation in mm Source: wetterkontor.de

Average monthly temperatures and rainfall for an-Nahud Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Max. Temperature ( ° C ) 31.8 33.2 36.4 38.8 38.8 37.0 33.0 31.7 33.9 36.2 34.5 32.2 O 34.8 Min. Temperature (° C) 13.5 14.9 18.0 21.0 22.9 23.5 22.6 22.0 21.8 20.8 17.6 14.4 O 19.4 Precipitation ( mm ) 0 0 0 2 24 44 113 134 85 21st 0 0 Σ 423 Rainy days ( d ) 0 0 0 0 3 4th 10 11 7th 3 0 0 Σ 38 Humidity ( % ) 24 22nd 19th 22nd 34 46 62 69 60 41 27 26th O 37.8 Source: wetterkontor.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{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.
2. ↑ 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. 
3. ↑ Guillaume Pitron: Gum arabic. Unknown and indispensable. In: Le Monde diplomatique , April 2011.
4. ↑ 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.