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Encyclopedia Britannica



WADI HALFA, or HALFA

This article appears in Volume V28, Page 228 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: VIR-WAT
WADI HALFA, or HALFA , a town of the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan, in 21 55' N., 31 19' E., on the right bank of the Nile, 5 M. S. of the northern frontier of the Sudan. It is the
chief
  town of the Haifa mudiria, is 770 M. S. of Cairo by
rail
  and steamer, and 575 M. N.N.W. of Khartum by
rail
 . Some 6 m. above the town is the second cataract, and on the west bank of the Nile opposite Haifa are the ruins of the ancient Egyptian city of Buhen (Bohon). Haifa is the northern terminus of the Sudan railway and the southern terminus of a steamboat service on the Nile, which, running to Shellal (Assuan), connects there with the Egyptian railways.
Wadi Haifa is a general designation including the native
village
  of that name, the camp, founded by the British in 1884 as their base in the operations for the
relief
  of General
Gordon
 , and the civil cantonment established at the same time. This cantonment occupies the site of a Nubian
village
 , and round it has grown a thriving town, at first named Taufikia, but now called Haifa. It has a
population
  (1907) of about 3000. The camp is 12 m. S. of Haifa. Here are the
barracks
 ,
officers
 ' quarters, railway works, and an esplanade along the river front. The village of Wadi Haifa is 3 M. S. of the camp.


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