Saras or Sarras was a 19th-century village in
Sudan along the
Nile River in the present
state
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of
Northern 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 ...
. It was briefly important as the southern terminus of
Isma'il Pasha
Isma'il Pasha ( ar, إسماعيل باشا ; 12 January 1830 – 2 March 1895), was the Khedive of Egypt and conqueror of Sudan from 1863 to 1879, when he was removed at the behest of Great Britain. Sharing the ambitious outlook of his gran ...
's abortive
railway into Sudan constructed in 1877.
[Budge, Ernest A.W. ''The Egyptian Sudan: Its History and Monuments'', Vol. II]
pp. 461 ff
1907 reprinted by Cosimo Classics (New York), 2010. Accessed 13 Feb 2014.[Sudan Railways Corporation.]
". 2008. Accessed 13 Feb 2014. The line was destroyed by the
Sudanese during the early phases of the
Mahdi War
The Mahdi ( ar, ٱلْمَهْدِيّ, al-Mahdī, lit=the Guided) is a messianic figure in Islamic eschatology who is believed to appear at the end of times to rid the world of evil and injustice. He is said to be a descendant of Muhammad w ...
and then reconstructed by the
British
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to supply the 1896
Dongola Expedition
The Mahdist War ( ar, الثورة المهدية, ath-Thawra al-Mahdiyya; 1881–1899) was a war between the Mahdist Sudanese of the religious leader Muhammad Ahmad bin Abd Allah, who had proclaimed himself the "Mahdi" of Islam (the "Guided O ...
. The line was badly sited and (in its reconstruction) hastily put together and was abandoned in 1904.
[Gleichen, Edward ed. ]
The Anglo-Egyptian Sudan: A Compendium Prepared by Officers of the Sudan Government
', Vol. 1, p. 99. Harrison & Sons (London), 1905. Accessed 13 Feb 2014.
The present site is scarcely populated but sometimes divided into Saras East and Saras West according to the settlements' position relative to the Nile.
References
Populated places on the Nile
Populated places in Northern (state)
Villages in Sudan
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