Amarar (Also known as Wagada' Amaraar) is a nomadic tribe of the

Beja people The Beja people (, , ) are a Cushitic-speaking peoples, Cushitic Ethnicity, ethnic group native to the Eastern Desert, inhabiting a coastal area from southeastern Egypt through eastern Sudan and into northwestern Eritrea. They are descended from ...

inhabiting the mountainous country to the west of the

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Suakin Suakin or Sawakin (, Beja: ''Oosook'') is a port city in northeastern Sudan, on the west coast of the Red Sea. It was formerly the region's chief port, but is now secondary to Port Sudan, about north. Suakin used to be considered the height ...

northwards, and

Eritrea Eritrea, officially the State of Eritrea, is a country in the Horn of Africa region of East Africa, with its capital and largest city being Asmara. It is bordered by Ethiopia in the Eritrea–Ethiopia border, south, Sudan in the west, and Dj ...

towards

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. Between them and the

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are the

Ababda The Ababda ( or ) are an Arabs, Arab or Beja people, Beja tribe in eastern Egypt and Sudan. Historically, most were Bedouin, Bedouins living in the area between the Nile and the Red Sea, with some settling along the trade route linking Korosko wit ...

and Bisharin Beja tribes and to their south dwell the

Hadendoa Hadendoa (or Hadendowa) is the name of a nomadic subdivision of the Beja people, known for their support of the Mahdist War, Mahdiyyah rebellion during the 1880s to 1890s. The area historically inhabited by the Hadendoa lies today in parts of Sud ...

(another Beja subgroup). The country of the Amarar is called the Atbai. Their main location is in the Ariab region. The tribe is divided into four great families: (1) Weled Gwilei, (2) Weled Aliab, (3) Weled Kurbab Wagadab, and (4) the Amarar proper of the Ariab district. The Wagardha' settle in Sudan, Eritrea and Somalia . They are said to be of

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blood through Ammar Aqiili and to be the descendants of an invading Arab army. This cites: * ''Anglo-Egyptian Sudan'', edited by Count Gleichen (London, 1905) * Sir F. R. Wingate, ''Mahdism and the Egyptian Sudan'' (London, 1891) *

A. H. Keane Augustus Henry Keane (1833–1912) was an Irish Roman Catholic journalist and linguist, known for his ethnological writings. Early life He was born in Cork, Ireland.George Grant MacCurdy, James Mooney and A. B. Legía - Antonio Flores, ''Anthro ...

, ''Ethnology of Egyptian Sudan'' (London, 1884). The Amarar speak a form of the

Beja language Beja ( or ) is an Afroasiatic language of the Cushitic branch spoken on the western coast of the Red Sea by the Beja people. Its speakers inhabit parts of Egypt, Sudan and Eritrea. In 2022 there were 2,550,000 Beja speakers in Sudan, and 121,00 ...

that uses fewer

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than other groups that speak Beja.

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