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	Nile - MSN Encarta
		The Nile crocodile is a ferocious reptile found in the southern part of the Nile, and hippopotamuses spend much of their days lounging and swimming in the Nile.
		The heritage of ancient Egypt is preserved along the Nile in the form of pyramids, sphinxes, temples, and underground tombs.
		Although Lake Victoria is regarded as the principal source of the Nile, the river’s ultimate source is considered to be the Ruvyironza River of Burundi in east-central Africa.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761558310/Nile.html (968 words)

	Egypt State Information Service - River Nile
		The Nile flows from south to north and is formed by three major tributaries: the White Nile, the Blue Nile and the Atbara.
		The dam was built to regulate the flow of the Nile River, and thus benefit the region's inhabitants.
		One explanation for the shape of the Ankh, the ancient Egyptian symbol for eternal life, is that it is thought to represent the Nile and its importance to life and consequently their religion.
	www.sis.gov.eg /En/Land&people/RNile/031400000000000001.htm (1193 words)

	Cataracts of the Nile - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The six primary cataracts of the Nile are shallow stretches between Aswan and Khartoum where the water's surface is broken by numerous small boulders and stones lying on the river bed, as well as many small rocky islands.
		The six primary cataracts of the Nile were the main obstacles for boats sailing on the Nile in antiquity.
		The six primary cataracts of the Nile are described extensively by European colonials, notably by Winston Churchill in The River War (1899), where he recounts the exploits of the British trying to return to Sudan between 1896 and 1898, after they were forced to leave in 1885.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Cataracts_of_the_Nile (404 words)

	The Nile
		The lowest Nile on record is dated by Martineau [13] to the year 966 CE and amounted to six and a half metres.
		At the cataracts, obstacles to river shipping, where - unless navigable canals were cut through the granite and maintained - ships were unloaded and the freight was carried overland, towns were built where the cargo could be stored and guarded.
		The large wild animals living in the Nile, the hippos and crocodiles, or farther afield, the lions and ostriches [6] were hunted and their habitats destroyed.
	nefertiti.iwebland.com /geography/nile.htm (2200 words)

	The River Nile Homepage
		The cataracts are sections where the river tumbles over rocks and have long kept boats from going up and down the river from Equatorial Africa to Egypt.
		The cataracts are also significant because these define river segments where granites and other hard rocks come down to the edge of the Nile.
		During the summer floods, the Nile flowed swiftly but with an unbroken surface, but the granite ledges were exposed when the annual flood abated.
	www.utdallas.edu /geosciences/remsens/Nile/cataracts.html (683 words)

	The Nile (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The Nile, as defined starting with the Kyaka river in Burundi, is 6,671 km long, and has a surface area of a total of 3,350,000 km² (5 times the area of France).
		The Nile can be divided into three zones, starting in the south: The first consists of tributaries to the two streams of the White Nile and the Blue Nile which join near Khartoum in Sudan.
		The width of the Nile north from Aswan in Egypt — it's most important stretch in terms of inhabitants and economy — is 2.8 km in average.
	i-cias.com /e.o/nile.htm (993 words)

	nile cataracts - Surgery and Hospital Directory and Information Provider
		Satet, Archer-Goddess of the Inundation and the Nile Cataracts
		Separating into the Rosetta and Anqet, The Embracer, Goddess of Fertility and the Nile at Aswan Together the three water-related deities were thought to protect the Nile's cataracts, especially near the First Cataract and the islands in the Aswan area.
		Satet, Archer-Goddess of the Inundation and the Nile Cataracts Satet, Archer-Goddess of the Inundation and the Nile Cataracts by Caroline Seawright December 31, 2001 Close Up of the Goddess Satet The River Nile Homepage The cataracts hinder navigation of the Nile, and have done so for thousands of years.
	www.katycentral.com /nile_cataracts.html (164 words)

	The Cataracts of the Nile
		Cataract was flooded by the water of Nasser lake when it was created.
		Cataract is about 70 km to the north of Khartoum.
		Cataract is located more to the north along the Nile when the river flows southwards near the town of Karima.
	www.italtoursudan.com /cataracts_of_the_nile.htm (166 words)

	the Living Africa: the land - Nile River - Physiography
		This portion of the Nile is unnavigable due to the series of rapids that are formed while the river descends through narrow gorges.
		The White Nile has a relatively constant flow, the Blue Nile in contrast is affected by the tremendous runoff resulting from the late July to October rains on the Ethiopian Plateau.
		The Atbara is fed by the Angereb and Tekezo.
	library.thinkquest.org /16645/the_land/nile_ph.shtml (737 words)

	Saudi Aramco World : Gateway on the Nile
		Granite lies everywhere in Aswan; it is strewn for miles across the surrounding desert, and immense islands of it are immersed in the path of the Nile, smoothed and polished to a sheen by countless Nile floods.
		The Nile cataracts - torrents of white water foaming over six vast outcroppings of rock emerging from the river over a stretch 965 kilometers long (600 miles) - were, in Egyptian and Roman times, an impassable barrier.
		Below, meanwhile, the Nile flows silently and serenely in the darkness, still rich and strong, despite a journey half the length of Africa, despite immense losses from evaporation in the swamps of the Sudd, and the deserts of The Sudan - two thirds of its volume - and despite the scourings by the roaring cataracts.
	www.saudiaramcoworld.com /issue/198505/gateway.on.the.nile.htm (2166 words)

	Nile Politics, Egypt, Sudan, Abyssinia, and the Horn of Africa
		The River Nile is Egypt 16 and Egypt is the Nile.
		Due to the central position of the Nile in the Weltanschauung, the philosophy and the religion of the Ancient Egyptians and the Ancient Ethiopians (the ancestors of the modern Oromos), the natural phenomenon became the matter of extensive interpretations and theories, during many long millennia.
		Out of the six cataracts of the Nile (another physical phenomenon that fascinated the Ancient Egyptians and the Ancient Ethiopians, provoking many theoretical approaches and efforts of interpretations), five are located in Sudan, and one in Egypt.
	www.buzzle.com /articles/nile-politics-egypt-sudan-abyssinia-and-the-horn-of-africa.html (2046 words)

	The Nile (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The Nile flows from south to north and is formed by three major tributaries: the White Nile, the Blue Nile and the Atbara.
		The dam was built to regulate the flow of the Nile River, and thus benefit the region's inhabitants.
		The salt water disrupts the animal habitat and sterilizes the soil in the northern delta region where the banks of the Nile are becoming badly eroded.
	www.website1.com /odyssey/week1/nile.html (454 words)

	The Nile
		The word Nile is probably derived from the Semitic root nahal, meaning "river valley," which later took the forms Neilos in Greek and Nilus in Latin.
		Although references to the Nile appear in the earliest records from the eastern Mediterranean region, the Nile's tributaries remained unknown in Europe and the Muslim world until the modern era.
		The fourth and fifth zones are the Blue Nile and the Atbara rivers, the Nile's eastern tributaries, which drain the Ethiopian highlands and Lake Tana and provide the greatest amount of water to the main river.
	home.att.net /~kganu/wsb/html/The_Nile.htm (1165 words)

	The Nile
		The word Nile is probably derived from the Semitic root nahal, meaning "river valley," which later took the forms Neilos in Greek and Nilus in Latin.
		Although references to the Nile appear in the earliest records from the eastern Mediterranean region, the Nile's tributaries remained unknown in Europe and the Muslim world until the modern era.
		The fourth and fifth zones are the Blue Nile and the Atbara rivers, the Nile's eastern tributaries, which drain the Ethiopian highlands and Lake Tana and provide the greatest amount of water to the main river.
	egyptworld.8k.com /thenile.html (1112 words)

	The Nile
		The Nile, as defined starting with the Kyaka river in Burundi, is 6,671 km long, and has a surface area of a total of 3,350,000 km² (5 times the area of France).
		The Nile can be divided into three zones, starting in the south: The first consists of tributaries to the two streams of the White Nile and the Blue Nile which join near Khartoum in Sudan.
		The width of the Nile north from Aswan in Egypt — it's most important stretch in terms of inhabitants and economy — is 2.8 km in average.
	lexicorient.com /e.o/nile.htm (1003 words)

	The Nile (Site not responding. Last check: )
		From the confluence of the White and Blue Nile, the river continues to flow northwards into Egypt and on to the Mediterranean Sea.
		The Ruvyironza, regarded as the ultimate source of the Nile, is one of the upper branches of the Kagera River.
		Cities: The major cities that are located on the edge of the Nile and White Nile are: Cairo, Gondokoro, Khartoum, Aswan, Thebes/Luxor, Karnak, and the town of Alexandria lies near the Rozeta branch.
	www.nilebasin.org /entro/thenile.htm (808 words)

	BBC - h2g2 - Satet, Archer-Goddess of the Inundation and the Nile Cataracts...
		BBC - h2g2 - Satet, Archer-Goddess of the Inundation and the Nile Cataracts...
		Satet, Archer-Goddess of the Inundation and the Nile Cataracts...
		She gave fertility to the land by releasing the flood and the Nile's silt, allowing the land to be able to grow crops again, and to give the life-giving water back to the Egyptians each year.
	www.bbc.co.uk /dna/h2g2/A2184031 (913 words)

	The Route from Lake Tana to the sea
		The 4,900 kilometre (3,060 mile) journey from the source of the Blue Nile to the Mediterranean Sea is one of remarkable colour and contrast.
		The flow of the Blue Nile is finally halted at the Roseires Dam, the first of many obstacles on her course to the sea.
		Almost no rain falls on Egypt and the country is entirely dependent on the Nile for water, with nearly 90% of the population living along her nourishing banks.
	www.niletrip.com /route.html (917 words)

	nile
		In particular, the farthest headstream of the Nile is the Ruvyironza River in Burundi, which is an upper branch of the Kagera River.
		The first cataract, the closest to the mouth of the river, is at Aswan to the north of the Aswan Dams.
		The failure of the Nile floods and the generally low level of the river is thought to have been responsible for the collapse of the Old Kingdom about 4200 years ago.
	www.dirpedia.com /nile.html (1977 words)

	Detail Page
		The cataracts of the Nile, the progression of 10 rocky, white-rapid regions, formed the southern border of ancient Egypt.
		The inundation of the river was gradual, heralded by the arrival of Sopdu, the Greek Sirius or Dogstar, in the sky.
		The Nile was also the manifestation of the god Hapi, the divine spirit that unceasingly blessed the land with rich silt deposits from the continent's core.
	www.fofweb.com /Onfiles/Ancient/AncientDetail.asp?iPin=EGY0686 (881 words)

	Cataracts of the Nile - Simple English Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The cataracts of the Nile are shallow stretches between Aswan and Khartoum where the water's surface is broken by numerous small boulders and stones that lye on the river bed, as well as many small rocky islets.
		The six first cataracts of the Nile were the main obstacles for boats sailing on the Nile in antiquity.
		The Fifth Cataract is near the confluence with the Atbara River (17.677° N 33.970° E)
	simple.wikipedia.org /wiki/Cataracts_of_the_Nile (321 words)

	The Potential of the Nile River Basin (Site not responding. Last check: )
		From Khartoum north to the Egyptian border and Aswan, the gradient of the Nile is steeper than south of Khartoum, and five of the Nile's six cataracts occur on this stretch.
		The White Nile's flow is especially important because it arrives during the months when the Blue Nile is very low, when the Blue Nile may contribute only 20% of the flow to the lower Nile.
		But the most distant origin point of the Nile waters is far to the south in the Kagera River Basin in Rwanda and Burundi, and the upper Nile flow comes from the catchment of the equatorial lake plateau.
	www.aboutsudan.com /action/great_projects/potential_nile_river.htm (1203 words)

	Aswan (BiblePlaces.com)
		The Nile River valley begins to the north of Aswan, as at this point the hard sandstone was difficult to cut through.
		The Nilometer was important as it measured the rise of the floodwaters of the Nile.
		The closer to the Nile River, the easier it was to float the stones downstream (to Karnak/Luxor and Memphis/Cairo).
	www.bibleplaces.com /aswan.htm (679 words)

	Cataracts Area (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Cataracts form for a variety of reasons, including long-term ultraviolet exposure, secondary effects of diseases such as diabetes, or simply due to advanced age; they are usually a result of denaturation of lens proteins.
		The cataracts are described by Winston Churchill in (1899), where he recounts the exploits of the British trying to return to Sudan between 1896 and 1898, after they were forced to leave in 1885.
		Clinical findings of cataracts or diabetes mellitus, in the absence of marked muscle weakness, pronounced myotonia, or family history of DM, are unlikely to lead a clinician to a DM diagnosis.
	www.cataracts-area.com (6741 words)

	Amazon.ca: The Nile: Books: Robert O. Collins (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Taming the Nile, the quixotic goal of administrators from early times, led to the first small dams, and in the early 20th century to dams in the Sudan.
		But the mighty Nile refused to capitulate, and the impoundment of its waters has led to great silting and weakening of the dams, the impoverishment of Egyptian agriculture, unexpected disease, and unanticipated economic and social consternation.
		For instance, as mighty as the Nile may be, its volume of fresh water delivered to the Mediterranean is only 2 percent of the total of the Amazon River and 15 percent of that of the Mississippi River.
	www.amazon.ca /Nile-Robert-O-Collins/dp/0300097646 (1434 words)

	Ancient Egypt
		Communal life in Egypt had its beginnings along the Nile river about the same time that the Neolithic settlers were pioneering the Sumerian mud flats and marshes.
		Some were forced to drag blocks of stone from the quarries in the Arabian hills to the Nile, where they were ferried across and taken over by others, who hauled them to the Libyan hills.
		To build the pyramid itself took twenty years; it is square at the base, its height (800 feet) equal to the length of each side; it is of polished stone blocks beautifully fitted, none of the blocks being less than thirty feet long.
	www.theology.edu /egypt1.htm (6703 words)

	Nile River
		The Nile is the longest river in the world, measuring 6695 km (4160 mi) from its remotest headstream in Burundi to its mouth at the Mediterranean Sea.
		II The Ruvyironza River of Burundi is regarded as the ultimate source of the Nile.
		The 1959 Nile Waters Agreement resolved an international dispute concerning the equitable division of the river’s water among the countries of the region.
	www.multimedia-publishing.com /nile_river.htm (1255 words)

	Nile River
		The Nile was the lifeline of the ancient Egyptian civilization,
		The width of the Nile north from Aswan is 2.8 km in average
		The Nile is unusual in that its last tributary (the Atbara) joins it roughly halfway to the sea.
	www.aldokkan.com /geography/nile.htm (949 words)

	ENSAP - About The Nile River
		The Ruvyironza, regarded as the ultimate source of the Nile, is one of the upper branches of the Kagera River.
		The Blue Nile (in Arabic the Al Bahr al-Azraq), 1529 km (950 mi) long, gathers its volume mainly from Lake T’ana, in the Ethiopian Highlands; it is known here as the Abbai.
		Cities: The major cities that are located on the edge of the Nile and White Nile are: Cairo, Gondokoro, Khartoum, Aswan, Thebes/Luxor, Karnak, and the town of Alexandria lies near the Rozeta branch.
	ensap.nilebasin.org /index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=58&Itemid=76 (917 words)

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