Gallabat
Gallabat
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Gallabat (
History
The town and district form a small ethnographical island in Al Qadarif, having been founded in the 18th century by a colony of Takruri from Darfur, who, finding the spot a convenient resting-place for their fellow-pilgrims on their way to Mecca and back, obtained permission from the Emperor of Ethiopia to make a permanent settlement there.[1][2] Lying on the main trade route from Sennar to Gondar (some 90 miles to the east) as well as being the center of the frontier province of Ras al-Fil, Gallabat grew into a trade center of some importance. The Scottish explorer James Bruce (who calls the town Hor-Cacamoot) spent two months in the town in 1772, disabled with dysentery which was cured only by the herbs of a local medicine-man and the attentions of his companion Yasin.[3]
One notable ruler of Gallabat was Sheikh Miri, who has been described as "probably the most celebrated of these border chiefs". The Sheikh formed an alliance with the
In about 1870, the
In 1899 the Mahdists were decisively defeated in the Sudan by British and Egyptian forces during the Battle of Umm Diwaykarat. After the even more decisive Battle of Omdurman, Mahdist rule in the Sudan was at an end. From 1899 to 1956, Gallabat was located in what was known as the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan.
In July 1940 during the
In 1956 the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan became the independent Republic of the Sudan.
In 1991
References
- ^ a b Chisholm 1911.
- ^ a b Arthur E. Robinson, "The Tekruri Sheikhs of Gallabat (S. E. Sudan)", Journal of the Royal African Society, 26 (1926), p. 49
- ^ J.M. Reid, Traveller Extraordinary: The Life of James Bruce of Kinnaird (New York: Norton, 1968), p. 216 n
- ^ Anthony Mockler, Haile Selassie's War (New York: Olive Branch Press, 2003), pp. 207, 272-279
- public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Gallabat". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 11 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 412. This article incorporates text from a publication now in the