Kabkabiya District

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Kabkabiya
كبكابية
Kabkabiya District
Country Sudan
State North Darfur
Population
 (2008)
  Total
191,414

Kabkabiya is a district of North Darfur state, Sudan. [1] [2]

Kabkabiya is home to a military base and has been a main location with the Battle of Kabkabiya during the 2023 Sudan war. [3] In May 2004, it held 45,000–95,000 internally displaced persons during the War in Darfur. [4]

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 Cobbé under the Sultanate of Darfur. [5]

References

  1. "Districts of Sudan". statoids. Retrieved 29 December 2018.
  2. "list of districts of Sudan" (PDF). Download Excel Files. Retrieved 29 December 2018.
  3. "Mapping the heavy fighting in Sudan". www.aljazeera.com. Retrieved 18 April 2023.
  4. International Crisis Group (May 2004). SUDAN: NOW OR NEVER IN DARFUR (Report). p. 15.
  5. 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.