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Encyclopedia Britannica



OMDURMAN

This article appears in Volume V20, Page 101 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: NUM-ORC
OMDURMAN , a town of the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan, on the west bank of the Nile, immediately north of the junction of the White and Blue Niles in 15 38' N.; 32 29' E., 2 M. N. by W. of Khartum. Pop. (1909 census) 42,779, of whom 541 were Europeans. The town covers a large area, being over 5 M. long and 2 broad. It consists for the most part of mud huts, but there are some houses built of sun-dried bricks. Save for two or three wide streets which traverse it from end to end the town is a network of narrow lanes. In the centre facing an open space are the ruins of the tomb of the Mandi and behind is the
house
  in which he lived. The Khalifa's
house
  (a two-storeyed building), the mosque, the Beit el Amaina (arsenal) and other houses famed in the history of the town also face the central square. A high
wall
  runs behind these buildings parallel with the Nile. Omdurman is the headquarters of the native traders in the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan, the
chief
  articles of commerce being ivory, ostrich feathers and gum arabic from Darfur and Kordofan. There is also an important camel and cattle market. Nearly every tribe in the Sudan is represented in the population of the city. Among the native artificers the metal workers and leather dressers are noted. The government maintains elementary and technical schools. Mission
work
  is undertaken by various
Protestant
  and Roman Catholic societies.
Omdurman, then an insignificant
village
 , was chosen in 1884 by the Mandi Mahommed Ahmed as his
capital
  and so continued after the fall of Khartum in January 1885. Its growth was rapid, the Khalifa (who succeeded the Mandi) compelling large numbers of disaffected tribesmen to live in the town under the eye of his soldiery. Here also were imprisoned the European captives of the Mandistsnotably Slatin Pasha and Father Ohrwalder. On the 2nd of September 1898 the Anglo-Egyptian army under Lord Kitchener totally defeated the forces of the Khalifa at Kerreri, 7 M. N. of the town. A marble obelisk marks the spot where the 21st Lancers made a charge. Within the enclosure of the Khalifa's house is the tomb of Hubert Howard, son of the 9th
earl
  of Carlisle, who was killed in the house at the capture of the city by a splinter of a shell fired at the Mandi's tomb. (See SUDAN: Angle-Egyptian.)


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