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	Khartoum - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Khartoum (Arabic الخرطوم al-Ḫarṭūm "elephant trunk") is the capital of Sudan, as well as the capital of the state of Khartoum.
		Khartoum is located at 15°35'17" North, 32°32'3" East (15.588056, 32.534167).
		Khartoum was founded in 1821 as an outpost for the Egyptian army, but grew as a regional center of trade, including the slave trade.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Khartoum (425 words)

	Sudan. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		The largest country in Africa, it borders on Egypt in the north, on the Red Sea in the northeast, on Eritrea and Ethiopia in the east, on Kenya, Uganda, and Congo (Kinshasa) in the south, on the Central African Republic and Chad in the west, and on Libya in the northwest.
		Rainfall diminishes from south to north in Sudan; thus, the south is characterized by swampland (the Sudd region) and woodland, the center by savanna and grassland, and the north by desert and semidesert.
		The main institutions of higher education are the Univ. of Khartoum, the Khartoum branch of the Univ. of Cairo, Juba Univ., Gezira Univ., and Omdurman Islamic Univ.
	www.bartleby.com /65/su/Sudan.html (2775 words)

	Travel in Khartoum Sudan - History
		Khartoum is one of three sister cities, built at the convergence of the Blue and White Niles: Omdurman to the north-west across the White Nile, North Khartoum, and Khartoum itself on the southern bank of the Blue Nile.
		Khartoum was sacked twice during the latter half of the 19th century -- once by the Mahdi and once by Kitchener when the Mahdi was ousted.
		In Khartoum, the political vacuum arising from the army's lack of initiative was filled by the rise of the National Islamic Front (NIF), a fundamentalist organisation led by Sheikh Hassan al-Turabi which has since become the power behind the regime.
	www.africatravelling.net /sudan/khartoum/khartoum_history.htm (1184 words)

	Sudan
		Sudan is bordered on the north by Egypt, on the east by the Red Sea and Ethiopia, on the south by Uganda, Kenya and Zaire and on the west by the Central African Republic, Chad and Libya.
		Khartoum is one of three cities built at the convergence of the Blue and White Niles.
		Khartoum is the second-largest city in Muslim North Africa, although it still retains much of the flavour of an outpost of the British Empire.
	us-africa.tripod.com /sudan.html (2446 words)

	AllRefer.com - Khartoum (Sudan Political Geography) - Encyclopedia
		Khartoum is a railroad hub and is connected by road to the heart of the adjacent cotton-growing region.
		Khartoum was retaken by H. Kitchener in 1898 and rebuilt.
		An educational center, Khartoum is the site of the Univ. of Khartoum (founded 1903 as Gordon Memorial College), a branch of the Univ. of Cairo, and Khartoum Polytechnic.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/K/Khartoum.html (324 words)

	Mussa Khartoum Homepage
		At Khartoum the two Niles meet forming a most extraordinary and remarkable natural phenomenon as the dividing line between the white or (light brownish) waters of the White Nile and the blue (dark grayish) waters of the Blue Nile can clearly be traced and witnessed nearby or from a high distance.
		After the fall of the Mahdist state, Khartoum was reinstalled as a capital of the condominium Administration in 1898.
		Khartoum grew rapidly and prospered during the period between 1825 and 1880.
	www.angelfire.com /ma2/yoss/Khartoum.html (517 words)

	Middle East Report Online: Black Monday: The Political and Economic Dimensions of Sudan's Urban Riots, by Khalid ...
		The Khartoum government, SPLM lieutenants and Garang's widow Rebecca insisted that the crash was accidental and appealed, somewhat in vain, for calm before the disturbances finally fizzled out.
		Garang was indeed included in the government on July 9, inaugurating a six-year "interim period" that is supposed to culminate in national elections in 2009 and a referendum on self-determination for the south in 2011.
		Khartoum and the South Sudan Government are to split oil revenues 50-50 in the interim period.
	www.merip.org /mero/mero080905.html (2221 words)

	Khartoum
		Together with Omdurman to the west and Khartoum North to the north, form Khartoum Sudan's dominating urban centre.
		Khartoum is the an administrative, economical and commercial centre for the whole of Sudan.
		The population of Khartoum is made up of all the peoples living in Sudan, making it relatively one of the least Arabic cities in the northern half of Sudan.
	lexicorient.com /e.o/khartoum.htm (273 words)

	Sudan - SOCIETY
		In 1990 the population of the Three Towns (Khartoum, Omdurman, and Khartoum North) was unknown because of the constant influx of refugees, but estimates of 3 million, well over half the urban dwellers in Sudan, may not have been unrealistic.
		In many cases, particularly in the north, local communities were incorporated into larger political systems, paying taxes to the central authority and adapting their local political arrangements to the needs of the central government.
		It was in Khartoum, Khartoum North, and Omdurman that the national politicians, highlevel bureaucrats, senior military, educated professionals, and wealthy merchants and entrepreneurs lived, worked, and socialized.
	www.mongabay.com /reference/country_studies/sudan/SOCIETY.html (19405 words)

	Fresh clashes in Sudan capital after Garang death - Boston.com - Africa - News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Northern and southern Sudanese clashed in Khartoum's outskirts on Tuesday, residents said, in the second day of violence after the death of southern leader John Garang, a former rebel who forged peace with the north.
		KHARTOUM (Reuters) - Northern and southern Sudanese clashed in Khartoum's outskirts on Tuesday, residents said, in the second day of violence after the death of southern leader John Garang, a former rebel who forged peace with the north.
		Central Khartoum was quiet on Tuesday, but residents and Sudanese journalists in a shantytown 6 miles south of the city center reported fresh clashes.
	www.boston.com /news/world/africa/articles/2005/08/02/sudanese_mourn_garang_world_urges_calm (545 words)

	Mussa Homepage, The Three towns capital
		Winston Churchill wrote about Khartoum some 90 years ago that:” The town of Khartoum, at the confluence of the Blue and White Niles, is the point on which the trade of the south must inevitably converge.
		During the years of the Egyptian administration, Khartoum had became a symbol of foreign domination and a few months after its capture the Khalifa Abdullahi, successor to the Mahdi now dead in his turn, decreed that it be abandoned.
		Khartoum, damaged by siege and sack, was now a quarry for the new city.
	www.angelfire.com /ma2/yoss/khrtm.html (1175 words)

	Sudan (08/05)
		Khartoum is situated at the confluence of the Blue and White Nile Rivers.
		The population of metropolitan Khartoum (including Khartoum, Omdurman, and Khartoum North) is growing rapidly and ranges from 6-7 million, including around 2 million displaced persons from the southern war zone as well as western and eastern drought-affected and rebellion-affected areas.
		Khartoum state, comprising the capital and outlying districts, is administered by a governor.
	www.state.gov /r/pa/ei/bgn/5424.htm (7522 words)

	Encyclopedia topic: Khartoum (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The city is home to the University of Khartoum (additional info and facts about University of Khartoum), founded in 1903 as Gordon Memorial College.
		Other universities are a branch of Cairo University (additional info and facts about Cairo University) and Khartoum Polytechnic University.
		Troops loyal to the Mahdi (additional info and facts about Mahdi) Muhammad Ahmad (additional info and facts about Muhammad Ahmad) laid siege to Khartoum starting on March 13, 1884 against the defenders led by British (The people of Great Britain) General Charles George Gordon (additional info and facts about Charles George Gordon).
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/k/kh/khartoum.htm (232 words)

	Sudan Embassy, New Delhi, India
		Khartoum state has three main towns, which are Khartoum, Khartoum North and Omdurman, all joined by four bridges across.
		Further north are the archaeological relics belonging to the modern Egyptian kingdom - the two temples of Soleb and Sadenga, not far from the Nile.
		Stretching from the desert in the north to the Sudano-Guinean savanna in the south and from dense tropical forests in the extreme southwest to the mountainous regions in the east, Sudan is a natural host to an exceptional diversity of wildlife.
	www.embassysudanindia.org /tourism/tourism.html (3154 words)

	Profile - Sudan
		It is bounded on the north by Egypt; on the east by the Red Sea, Eritrea, and Ethiopia; on the south by Kenya, Uganda, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC, formerly Zaire); and on the west by the Central African Republic, Chad, and Libya.
		It is divided into three separate natural regions, ranging from desert in the north, covering about 30 percent of all Sudan, through a vast semiarid region of steppes and low mountains in central Sudan, to a region of vast swamps (the As Sudd region) and rain forest in the south.
		In the vicinity of Khartoum the average annual temperature is about 27° C (about 80° F); and annual rainfall, most of which occurs between mid-June and September, is about 250 mm (about 10 in).
	www.inadev.org /profile_-_sudan.htm (4198 words)

	Winne.com - Report on Sudan, Beyond Common Perceptions
		Khartoum is located on the junction of the White and Blue Nile, latitude 15,36 N, longitude 31,32 E, some 1352 ft above the sea level.
		It is 457 km north east of Khartoum.
		It is 175 km north east of Khartoum.
	www.winne.com /sudan/bf02.html (2194 words)

	ninemsn Encarta - Search Results - Khartoum
		Khartoum, city in east central Sudan, capital of Sudan and of Khartoum Province, just south of the confluence of the Blue Nile and White Nile rivers....
		Khartoum North, city, north central Sudan, in Khartoum Province, on the Blue Nile River just above its confluence with the White Nile near Khartoum....
		Gordon served the British government in India, China, Mauritius, and South Africa from 1880 to 1883.
	au.encarta.msn.com /Khartoum.html (99 words)

	COUNTRY PROFILE: SUDAN
		It borders the Red Sea between Egypt on the north and Eritrea and Ethiopia on the southeast; it borders Chad and the Central African Republic on the west.
		In the North, the Nubian Desert lies to the east of the Nile, the Libyan Desert to the west.
		In the early to mid-1990s, Khartoum was home to several well-known international terrorists, including Abu Nidal and Osama bin Laden, and in 1995 the Sudanese government was accused of complicity in the attempted assassination of Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak in Addis Ababa.
	www.mongabay.com /reference/country_profiles/2004-2005/Sudan.html (7278 words)

	VirtualTourist.com - Basil-K's Homepage
		he comes from a village just off the town of shendy 500 km north of the capital called gandatu where me and my sisters had to visit every summer when we were living in saudi arabia...
		many people work for the government in khartoum but dont get paid much but their bills, petrol and rent is paid for them..
		khartoum is a small city compared to its nabour cairo but for its inhabitants it is beautiful...
	members.virtualtourist.com /m/695f4 (599 words)

	Islamic History Sourcebook: Alfred Egmont Hake: The Death of General Gordon at Khartoum, 1885
		GENERAL GORDON arrived at Khartoum on February 18th, and spent his time between that date and the investment on March 12, in sending down women and children, two thousand of whom were sent safely through to Egypt, in addition to six hundred soldiers.
		A steamer was sent down to reconnoiter, and the moment she reached the front of the Arab position a volley was fired into her, wounding an officer and a soldier.
		In the center of Khartoum he had built himself a tower, from the roof of which he kept a sharp lookout with his field-glass in the daytime.
	www.fordham.edu /halsall/islam/1885khartoum1.html (2607 words)

	Khartoum on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Manifestation contre l'offensive américaine en Irak, à Khartoum vendredi A Khartoum, des milliers de personnes, manifestan.
		Khartoum, marriage between two brothers and two sisters,one wears the "hijab" headdress.
		Manifestation contre l'offensive américaine en Irak, à Khartoum vendredi A Khartoum, des milliers de personnes ont appelé.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/K/Khartoum.asp (796 words)

	SESRTCIC (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		It is bordered by Egypt and Libya in the North, Chad and Central African Republic in the West and South-west, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Uganda and Kenya in the South, and Ethiopia and Eritrea in the East.
		The country is located in an immense basin sloping gently down towards the North plateau and mountains, while the North-eastern part is characterised by mountains and hills sloping towards the Red Sea coast.
		The North of the country is arid and semiarid.
	www.sesrtcic.org /members/sud/sudhome.shtml (300 words)

	The National Capital, Khartoum (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Facing Khartoum from the northeastern bank of the Blue Nile is the town of Khartoum North.
		The mosque was enlarged and reconstructed during the reign of the Turkish ruler Al Khurshid Pasha.
		The second church of Sayeda EI Bushara was constructed in Khartoum in 1910.
	www.sudan-embassy.co.uk /infobook/khartoum.php (1165 words)

	The Potential of the Nile River Basin and the Economic Development of Sudan
		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.
		Not shown on the diagram is a project (between Russia and Sudan) announced this May, for construction of a dam at Keibar (400km north of Khartoum) for irrigation and power.
		are in Atbara, north of Khartoum on the Nile River.
	www.members.tripod.com /~american_almanac/sudan.htm (3549 words)

	Khartoum
		Khartoum (which means the elephant’s « trunk ») lays o the last « trunk » of land between the White and Blue Nile before their junction (Moqren) ; it is the capital of Khartoum State, and thje headquarter of the homonymous province.
		It is the headquarter of the North Upper Nile Province of the Upper Nile State.
		In Khartoum exists parish of the MELKITE Church which follows the oriental Melkite rite to serve the catholic community of the same rite.
	www.eglisesoudan.org /english/Khartoum.htm (1796 words)

	Search Results for Khartoum - Encyclopædia Britannica
		It lies on the north bank of the Blue Nile and on the east bank of the Nile proper, with bridge connections to its sister cities of Khartoum and Omdurman.
		Al-Mahdi's crowning victory was the capture of Khartoum, on Jan. 26, 1885, after a resolute defense by its commander, Major General Charles George Gordon, who, against al-Mahdi's express order, was...
		In the north, villages are often strung out along the...
	www.britannica.com /search?query=Khartoum&submit=Find&source=MWTEXT (323 words)

	Khartoum, Sudan, Pictures
		Khartoum, city, north central Sudan, capital of Sudan and of Khartoum Province, just south of the confluence of the Blue Nile and White Nile rivers, in the east central part of the country.
		Much of its trade is derived from river traffic on the Nile and from farms of the large Al Jazirah (Gezira) irrigated area to the south.
		The University of Khartoum (1956), Cairo University Khartoum Branch (1955), and a number of specialized technical schools are here, as are the Sudan National Museum and the Ethnographical Museum.
	www.greatestcities.com /Africa/Sudan/Khartoum_city_state_capital.html (197 words)

	SudanTribune article : Suspension of Khartoum Monitor Licence (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		In a letter to the acting editor of the Khartoum Monitor, Dr. Hashim attached the decision of Judge Ismat Suleiman Hassan sitting at Khartoum North Panel Court dated 12 June 2005, ordering the withdrawal of the newspaper license.
		The Khartoum Monitor licence to print was first withdrawn on 12 July 2003 following a decision by the Khartoum North Panel Court after it published an interview with Santino Deng, the ex-Minister for Animal Resources in 2001.
		SOAT is concerned by the suspension of the Khartoum Monitor and the continuing restrictions on freedom of expression, and urges the government of Sudan, the Judiciary and National Press and Publications Council:
	www.sudantribune.com /article.php3?id_article=10120 (642 words)

	Andrew Balfour
		However, he restricted his sanitary activities to Khartoum and Khartoum North, continuing to completely ignore the town of Omdurman on the west bank of the White Nile although it fell within the boundaries of Khartoum Province [10].
		It is true that Balfour restricted his efforts to Khartoum and Khartoum North, yet his work set a standard for the whole country.
		At the same time,it must not be forgotten that almost all the greatest discoveries in tropical medicine have been done on the spot, so to speak, although it is true that many of them required the work of European authorities to interpret their intrinsic importance and their bearings on science and medicine in general.
	www.geocities.com /aaadeel/abofkrt.html (4830 words)

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