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Suakin or
Sawakin (Arabic: سواكن, romanized: Sawākin, Beja: Oosook) is a port city in
northeastern Sudan, on the west
coast of the Red Sea. It was formerly...
- The
Suakin Expedition was
either of two British-Indian
military expeditions, led by Major-General Sir
Gerald Graham, to
Suakin in Sudan, with the intention...
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inland from the port of
Suakin on the Red Sea
coast of Sudan. A
contingent of some 3,000
troops from the
British and
Indian "
Suakin Field Force" led by Major...
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force near
Suakin, a
chief port of Sudan. The
Mahdist force,
under Osman Digna, had
advanced on
Suakin with an
intention to
invest it. From
Suakin, General...
- point. It has an
average depth of 490 m (1,610 ft), and in the
central Suakin Trough it
reaches its
maximum depth of 3,040 m (9,970 ft). Approximately...
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Battle of
Suakin of 1541 was an
armed encounter that took
place in 1541 in the city of
Suakin (Suaquém in Portuguese), held by the
Ottoman Empire...
- Lieutenant-General Sir
Gerald Graham,
including an
Indian contingent, to
Suakin in
March 1885.
Though successful in the two
actions it fought, it failed...
- Red Sea basin. On the
Northeast Africa littoral, the
eyalet extended from
Suakin and
their hinterlands to Zeila. Like
Ottoman control in
North Africa, Yemen...
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Archived from the
original on 11
September 2020.
Retrieved 30
August 2020. "
Suakin: 'Forgotten'
Sudanese island becomes focus for Red Sea rivalries". Middle...
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Makuria collapsed.
Coastal areas from
southern Sudan up to the port city of
Suakin was
succeeded by the Adal
Sultanate in the
fifteenth century. To the south...
