Nagazou, Nagazoo or Nagazu (Arabic: نقزو) is an

island An island (or isle) is an isolated piece of habitat that is surrounded by a dramatically different habitat, such as water. Very small islands such as emergent land features on atolls can be called islets, skerries, cays or keys. An island ...

in the

Nile River The Nile, , Bohairic , lg, Kiira , Nobiin: Áman Dawū is a major north-flowing river in northeastern Africa. It flows into the Mediterranean Sea. The Nile is the longest river in Africa and has historically been considered the longest rive ...

, located within the state of

Sudan Sudan ( or ; ar, السودان, as-Sūdān, officially the Republic of the Sudan ( ar, جمهورية السودان, link=no, Jumhūriyyat as-Sūdān), is a country in Northeast Africa. It shares borders with the Central African Republic t ...

, 16 :28' :18.55" N & 32 :48' : 51.47" E (GPS) on Google maps. It lies about 100km north of

Khartoum Khartoum or Khartum ( ; ar, الخرطوم, Al-Khurṭūm, din, Kaartuɔ̈m) is the capital of Sudan. With a population of 5,274,321, its metropolitan area is the largest in Sudan. It is located at the confluence of the White Nile, flowing n ...

, and 18 kilometers north of the

Sixth Cataract The Cataracts of the Nile are shallow lengths (or whitewater rapids) of the Nile river, between Khartoum and Aswan, where the surface of the water is broken by many small boulders and stones jutting out of the river bed, as well as many rocky ...

. It is the last island in an

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, which formed as the result of the cataract. The village belongs to the

Wad Hamid Wad Hamid is a city on the Nile about 100 kilometres north of Khartoum, Sudan. Most of the people are farmers. Wad Hamid is part of Almatama Province. Wad Hamid is the center of a big area constituted of many villages and islands, a few to menti ...

locality affiliate, and the residents belong to the

ja'alin The Ja'alin, Ja'aliya, Ja'aliyin or Ja'al ( ar, جعليون) are an Arab or Arabised Nubian tribe in Sudan. The Ja'alin constitute a large portion of the Sudanese Arabs and are one of the three prominent Sudanese Arab tribes in northern Sudan - ...

tribe. Agriculture is the main livelihood of the population, along with transport, trade and services. The most important agricultural products are potatoes, broad beans, onions, tomatoes, vegetables, coriander, fenugreek (in arabicحلبه ), hummus, beans and legumes, and fodder. The island's geographic location is a great advantage, as it provides a link between

Hajar al Asal (in Arabic حجر العسل) Hajar is an alternative transliteration for the Biblical person Hagar. Hajar may also refer to: * Hajar an-Nasar, a fortress and sometime capital of northern Morocco * Pen name of Abdurrahman Sharafkandi, a Kurdish writer and poet *Hajar Khatoon ...

and Wad Hamid localities. Local ferries assist in easy transportation between the two river banks. Due to the availability of water throughout the year and the green landscape, the village is recognized as a tourist area, but it needs to be developed to raise the level of services.

History

The location of this island in the north Sudan made it an historical area where, through the ages, various campaigns of invasion and liberation have passed by. A ship near the island was part of Herbert Kitchener Pasha's

campaign Campaign or The Campaign may refer to: Types of campaigns * Campaign, in agriculture, the period during which sugar beets are harvested and processed *Advertising campaign, a series of advertisement messages that share a single idea and theme * Bl ...

, which set up a camp near Wad Hamid on 24 August 1898 before Pasha went on to the

Battle of Omdurman The Battle of Omdurman was fought during the Anglo-Egyptian conquest of Sudan between a British–Egyptian expeditionary force commanded by British Commander-in-Chief (sirdar) major general Horatio Herbert Kitchener and a Sudanese army of the M ...

References

{{coord missing, Sudan Populated places in River Nile (state) Ja'alin tribe