Er Roseires ( ar, الروصيرص, al-Rūṣayriṣ) is a town in eastern
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 ...
60 km from the
border with Ethiopia.
Lord Prudhoe mentions this town in the 1829 diary he kept while travelling in the Sennar. At the time it was the residence of one Sheikh Suliman, ruler of the lower reach of the
Blue Nile
The Blue Nile (; ) is a river originating at Lake Tana in Ethiopia. It travels for approximately through Ethiopia and Sudan. Along with the White Nile, it is one of the two major tributaries of the Nile and supplies about 85.6% of the water ...
(Baḥr al-Azraq), for which he paid 1500 ounces of gold to the Egyptians out of his revenues.
[Lord Prudhoe]
"Extracts from Private Memoranda Kept by Lord Prudhoe on a Journey from Cairo to Sennar,in 1829, Describing the Peninsula of Sennar", ''Journal of the Royal Geographical Society''
5 (1835), p. 52
The
Roseires Dam
The Roseires Dam ( ar, خزان الروصيرص) is a dam on the Blue Nile at Ad Damazin, just upstream of the town of Er Roseires, in Sudan. It consists of a concrete buttress dam 1 km wide with a maximum height of 68 m, and an earth dam
...
is located just upstream of the town.
Climate
El Roseires features a Tropical Savanna Climate ( Aw )
References
Populated places in Blue Nile (state)
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