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Gezira Sporting CLUB
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of the Modern Middle East and North Africa
GEZIRA SPORTING CLUB Country club in Cairo. Long...imperialism and insularity in Egypt, the Gezira, as it is usually called, was founded...Nasser regime. In the early 1960s, the Gezira was both figuratively and literally truncated...
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Gezira Scheme
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of the Modern Middle East and North Africa
GEZIRA SCHEME A Sudanese agricultural project established by the British. The Gezira Scheme, located in the plains between the Blue...managers replaced the British officials, and the Gezira Board invested a greater share of the profits for...
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Al Gezira
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Al Gezira , or Al Jazirah , region, central Sudan, occupying the tract between the White and Blue Niles south of their convergence at Khartoum. The Arabic word Gezira means "island" or "peninsula." Wad Madani is the region's chief town...
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Egypt
Encyclopedia entry from: Cities of the World
...with shops, squares, hotels and markets. The island of Gezira has both Embassy-owned and leased housing in its Zamalek residential...foreigners only, who lived and played by the fields of the Gezira Club. On the west bank, Mohandessin, Agouza, Dokki and the...
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Wad Madani
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...It is linked by rail with Khartoum and is the chief center of the Al Gezira cotton-growing region. Wheat, barley, and livestock are other products...rapidly after the implementation (1925) of a program to develop the Al Gezira region.
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Sudan
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...The Nile system provides irrigation for strips of agricultural settlement for much of its course in Sudan and also for the Al Gezira plain, situated between the White Nile and the Blue Nile, just south of their confluence at Khartoum. In the extreme north...
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Nile
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...lakes Victoria and Albert and the Sudd swamps. Other important tributaries of the Nile are the Atbara and Sobat rivers. The Gezira, or "island," formed between the Blue Nile and the White Nile as they come together at Khartoum is Sudan's principal agricultural...
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Cairo
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...head of its delta, at the boundary of ancient Upper and Lower Egypt. The city includes two islands in the Nile, Zamalik (Gezira) and Roda (Rawdah), which are linked to the mainland by bridges. Cairo is the largest city in the Middle East and in Africa...
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Mahdist State
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of the Modern Middle East and North Africa
...the Nile valley (awlad al-balad). The Khalifa, whose troops controlled the capital of Omdurman and the corn-growing Gezira, prevented the Mahdi's kinsman Khalifa Muhammad Sharif ibn Hamid from being named ruler and deposed most of the military...
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Blue Nile
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...Egypt. In Ethiopia the Blue Nile, also known there as the Abbai, flows in a deep gorge and receives many tributaries. There are dams on the Blue Nile at Roseires and Sennar in Sudan; the latter is used to irrigate the Al Gezira region.
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