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The Beja people inhabit a general area between the Nile River and the Red Sea in Sudan, Eritrea and eastern Egypt known as the Eastern Desert. Most of them live in the Sudanese states of Red Sea around Port Sudan , River Nile , Al Qadarif and Kassala , as well as in Northern Red Sea , Gash-Barka , and Anseba Regions in Eritrea, and southeastern ...
There was a Beja tribe that was described as a warrior clan. The name of the clan was Dar As-Sawa. The young men of this particular tribe were sent to military training school, where they were trained for war and combat. [2] The inhabitants of the kingdoms that were located in Eritrea were agriculturalist and pastoralist.
The Hadendoa were traditionally a pastoral people, ruled by a hereditary chief, [9] called a Ma'ahes. One of the best-known chiefs was a Mahdist general named Osman Digna . He led them in the battles, from 1883 to 1898, against the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan (the United Kingdom and Egypt were exercising joint sovereignty in Sudan. [ 10 ]
The Bishari live in the eastern part of the Nubian Desert in Sudan and southern Egypt.They reside in the Atabai (also spelled Atbai) area between the Nile River and the Red Sea, north of the Amarar and south of the Ababda people between the Nubian Desert and the Nile Valley, an area of limestone, mountains, with sandstone plateaus.
Shalateen (Arabic: شلاتين Šalatayn, Egyptian Arabic: [ʃælæˈtiːn]; also spelled Shalatin and Shalatayn) is the biggest town in the Halaib Triangle, a disputed territory claimed by both Egypt and Sudan. It is located 520 km (320 mi) south of Hurghada and is controlled as the administrative center of all Egyptian territory ...
The Ababda (Arabic: العبابدة, romanized: al-ʿabābdah or Arabic: العبّادي, romanized: al-ʿabbādī) are an Arab [1] or Beja [2] tribe [4] in eastern Egypt and Sudan. Historically, most were Bedouins living in the area between the Nile and the Red Sea , with some settling along the trade route linking Korosko with Abu Hamad .
[4] The primary commercial activities of the Beja kingdoms were mining and slave trade. An important slave-trade center was established on the Dahlak islands. Slaves were traded out of the African interior to the Arabian peninsula and beyond. Amid Beja rule, most of the descendants of the Axum empire were either driven out of the region or sold ...
Rilly (2019) states: "The Blemmyes are another Cushitic speaking tribe, or more likely a subdivision of the Medjay/Beja people, which is attested in Napatan and Egyptian texts from the 6th century BC on." [13] On page 134: "From the end of the 4th century until the 6th century AD, they held parts of Lower Nubia and some cities of Upper Egypt." [14]