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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...
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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...
- 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...
- 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...
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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...
- (221 mi) wide. 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...
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Hadendoa tribe of the Beja people. His
birthplace is not do****ented, but
Suakin was said to be the town,
where he was born. He was
originally known as Osman...
- the Red Sea basin. On the
Northeast Africa littoral, the
eyalet comprised Suakin and
their hinterlands. Like
Ottoman control in
North Africa, Yemen, Bahrain...
- Lieutenant-General Sir
Gerald Graham,
including an
Indian contingent, to
Suakin in
March 1885.
Though successful in the two
actions it fought, it failed...
