Kabkabiya District
Kabkabiya
كبكابية | |
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| Country | Sudan |
| State | North Darfur |
| Population (2008) | |
• Total | 191,414 |
Kabkabiya is a district of North Darfur state, Sudan.[1][2] The town it is named after derives its name from the Fur phrase kebi kebbia ("they threw away their shields"), commemorating Darfur's victory over Wadai there during the reign of Ahmad Bukr (late-17th and early-18th centuries).[3]: 43
Kabkabiya is home to a military base and has been a main location with the Battle of Kabkabiya during the 2023 Sudan war.[4] In May 2004, it held 45,000–95,000 internally displaced persons during the War in Darfur.[5]
Its town of the same name was one of few prior to the Anglo-Egyptian invasion of Sudan and an important access point to the caravan trade west of Kobbei under the Sultanate of Darfur.[6]
References
[edit]- ↑ "Districts of Sudan". statoids. Retrieved 29 December 2018.
- ↑ "list of districts of Sudan" (PDF). Download Excel Files. Retrieved 29 December 2018.
- ↑ O'Fahey, Rex (2008). "The expansion of the Keira state". The Darfur Sultanate: A History. Hurst Publishers. ISBN 9780231700382.
- ↑ "Mapping the heavy fighting in Sudan". www.aljazeera.com. Retrieved 18 April 2023.
- ↑ International Crisis Group (May 2004). SUDAN: NOW OR NEVER IN DARFUR (Report). p. 15.
- ↑ El-Bushra, El-Sayed (1971). "Towns in the Sudan in the Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries". Sudan Notes and Records. 52: 65, 67. ISSN 0375-2984. JSTOR 42677876.
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