Dar al-Manasir
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Dar al-Manasir is the region of the Fourth Cataract, the most impassable of all rapids of the Nile. It is the homeland of the Arab tribe of the Manasir and from them gets its name. Still today the wat
Dar al-Manasir as seen from the top of Gebel Musa
View over Marha, Sur Island in Dar al-Manasir
Dar al-Manasir as seen from the top of Gebel Us
Sunset over Dar al-Manasir
Merowe Dam
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The Merowe Dam, also known as Merowe High Dam, Merowe Multi-Purpose Hydro Project or Hamdab Dam, is a large dam near Merowe Town in northern Sudan, about 350 kilometres north of the capital Khartoum.
Dar al-Manasir
…of goats, the number of silt-covered river banks in any given 10 kilometres may be up to a dozen". Dar al-Manasir will be successively flooded by the Merowe Dam project. Dar al-Manasir is confined by the upstream living Rubatab tribe (الرباطاب) in the area of Abu Hamed (أبو حمد) (E 33.18°) and the downstream…
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Astronaut photograph of Merowe Dam
During relocation of the Manasir from Dar al-Manasir ahead of the flooding their villages were destroyed and compensated palm trees were burned