Tobaco

Produced in different countries , but did you believe that tobaco was cultivated in Wadi Halfa (in belly of rock) , why ? because the available lands were limited and adjusant to nile banks only . Authority at that time (colonization time ) issued a desicion for those people who were resident in that area to produce tobaco and forbid it in other places , why ? because arable lands in belly of rock limited and characterized by rocky lands .
Two types of tobaco were grown , smoking tobaco during winter peroid when nile recedes and planted in silt lands at the banks of the nile , while the other type which is a sort of snuffing tobaco planted during summer months by water wheels . In this area tobaco considered as the main cash crop . (All this existed before Nubian exodus from their home land to eastern SUDAN .

Who are Nubians

Nubians are those people who live in the far north of Sudan , it comprises two areas ( Dongola and Halfa ). Their language differ a bit from each other, but they have the same culture and traditions . They were light dark green in color , they were a haematic race , they spoke nubin in Halfa area and ushkir in Dongola . Their main career or job is cultivating land , they were farmers . In the past they used water wheels to pumps water to irrigate their fields (called in arabic : sakia ) , now they depend on more sophisticated pumps that draw water by means of electericity or gasoline .They specialized in producing winter crops such as wheat ,ficia faba ,chickpeas, and so many pulses and vegetables.
The far north of nubian area inundated by high dam waters which constructed in Eygpt (an area about 150km now under water) , so the government of Sudan transfered people who live in this area to a place called Khashim Algirba in eastern Sudan ( Kassala Province )in 1964-65 . And to settle those imigrated people the government of Sudan estatblished an agric. project at the western banks of Atbra river in Butana plain , also to resettle the nomadic indigenous peole of Butana .
Some people refused to migrate to this new area and face harsh times, their houses demolished by the flood and they lost all their arable lands , so they depend in their livelihood on compensation that they get due to their lost houses , grooves and lands and on money that sent by their kins from abroad .
Those who migrated to Khashim Algirba encountered by a different environment that characterized by high rains during rainy season ( May - Sept. ) , those people do not used to high rains . The government allocated about 15 feddans (acres ) for each family to grow cotton , peanuts and wheat , also they recieved free-hold lands in compensation for their lost lands . In coming posts i will write more .
new halfa .

women of nubia

women of nubia were active they do house work , they help their husbunds in field works , every day they draw drinking water from nile and in their leisure time they make liquid butter (samin ) or ( salle ) in nubians lingua franca also they they make straw matts and do knitting of cloths . they were industerious and do many jobs in every sunrise .

The belly of rock

An area in nuba land , situated between catract number two in abka (south of Wadi Halfa ) and extends south wards about 100 km . the people who resident and live in this area considered as indigenous nubians because they did not affected by external incurtions that happened in the area through out the histry , their rocky land help them to avoid attacks from out side , so , they live in satisfaction without facing any danger , and for that they did not mixed with other tribes or invaders .

Gergar

A garment mostly black in color worn always by married nubian women .It considerded as heritage of nubians in northern Sudan , It is a light cloth , and you can see it in Sudan exibitions . In recent year gergar lost its publicity because all younger women prefer to worn the tobe , and this is a long cloth that wrap up the body . it made from fine cloth with different types and names. The tobe is worn by all Sudanese women .

Wadi Halfa

My beloved country ( home ) , one of the oldest cities in Sudan . It extends from the southern borders of Eygpt to a place called Abu Fatima at the far south . it constitute Halfa, sikout and Mahas . After construction of high dam in Eygpt and when the old city flooded by dam waters they moved to a higher place about 20km to rebuild a new city. Wadi Halfa is the paradise of all nubians , nowadays construction and developments were running including new roads and institutions so , it became an attractive and more nubians have intentions to go back and live there .

mosque of village 16 - N.Halfa Sudan

donations and help are needed from all charitable muslims through out of the globe to complete building of the mosque .

Exodus of nubian

nubian exodus considered as the famous exodus that happened in Sudan and Eygpt during this epoch . Nubians of Sudan transfered to Eastern Sudan , now they live in New halfa within Butana land , while the Eygption nubians transefered to a site called comampo . This imigration initiated during 1964 -65 due to inundation of their home land by the high dam waters .
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khashim elgirba dam

Consructed at Atbra River in the onset of sixties to reserve irrigation water to New Halfa Agricultural corporation . Capacity of the reservoir when constructed 1.6 milliards cubic of water , in recent years this amount declined till it reached about 0.6 milliards cubic meters . In the scheme they follow the surface irrigation techniques to irrigate crops that produced within the corporation .

water wheel

A machine used in acient nubia to pump water from the great nile to fields. In arabic called (sakia ), but in nubian languge called ( askalle ) .In a post I, will write more about this machine .
ahmed gabra , New Halfa .
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New Halfa City

From its name it is clear that this town is a new one . Nubians who imigrated from Wadi Halfa when their home land is inundated by the high dam waters of Eygpt to Butana area in Eastern Sudan , they prefered to name their new home by the name of their old home . A new city was created by the name New Halfa , in the coming posts i, will write more about New Halfa , if you to know more about this city please stick to my blog , also you can send your comments .
ahmed gabra , New Halfa

who are nubians

nubians are those people who live on the banks of the great river nile north of sudan and south of Eygpt . their language is the nubin (considered as a very old languge ) . they depend on their subsistence in agriculture . They were the indigenus people of Sudan .
Nubians were dark light in color , they were the the most civilized in sudan , when arabs enter Sudan they intermarried with nubians and more than nubians so, arabs control Sudan now.

hi , to all nuba

my compliments to all nuba through out sudan and the world.
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