Atbarah

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Location of Atbarah within Sudan

Atbarah (sometimes Atbara) (Arabic: عطبرة) is a town of 87,878 (1993) located in the state of River Nile in northeastern Sudan. ^[1] It is located at the junction of the Nile and Atbarah rivers. It is an important railway junction and railroad manufacturing center, and most employment in Atbarah is related to the rail lines.

1 History
2 See also
3 Notes
4 References

[edit] History

The first trade union in Sudan formed in 1946 among railroad workers in Atbarah. The city also is home to one of Sudan's largest cement factories (Atbara Cement Corporation). As Sudanese towns go this one is quite famous. First and foremost, it's the centre of the Sudanese railway industry... or used to be anyway. Not many trains are made here (or anywhere else) nowadays. Trains still trundle through most days though, and the original station and unusual dome-shaped houses of railway workers remain. They're well worth a look.

Perhaps because of the influence of the railway unions, Atbara is also considered by many to be the home of Sudanese communism. Jaafar Nimeiri, Sudan's president throughout the 1970's, alternated between communism, rabid capitalism and Islamic fundamentalism - depending on who he was trying to get on his side and extract money from - and the communist phase had its stronghold around Atbara. Not that this has any real bearing on Atbara today, but it's just an interesting bit of history!

Atbara is a city that gather most of the tripes the of Sudan. However, it is originally construcrted from few main districts. Starting with Umbukole district where there is the First Higher School in Atbara. Also well known ae the rail way district, almurabaat, alsawdana, al matar, etc..

Umbukole is a district that tells a story well known for its people. Umbukole which is originally a name given to city in northern state in and a capital to the Kurti county, is now mostly remeberd as the name of this small district in Atbara. One of the well known of it pople is Mandour Almahdi who wrote about History of The Sudan.

Atbara has been always a good station in life of important people. resident of the city think that it has been always unjusticed by goverments, and its people are now immigrating to Khartoum and other places.

Like Khartoum further upstream, Atbara is also the confluence of two major rivers - in this