Er Roseires () is a town in eastern
Sudan
Sudan, officially the Republic of the Sudan, is a country in Northeast Africa. It borders the Central African Republic to the southwest, Chad to the west, Libya to the northwest, Egypt to the north, the Red Sea to the east, Eritrea and Ethiopi ...
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 Tributary, tributaries of the Nile and supplies about 85.6% of the wa ...
(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 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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