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Khartoum

The Nuttall Encyclopedia

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A caravan depôt in the Soudan, just above the confluence of the Blue and White Niles, 1100 m. S. of Cairo; was an active slave-trade centre, and commercially important; was captured by the Mahdists in 1885, when General Gordon fell; retaken by Lord Kitchener in 1898; lately has been superseded by Omdurman on the opposite bank of the Nile.

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Wood, James, ed. Entry for 'Khartoum'. The Nuttall Encyclopedia. https://www.studylight.org/​encyclopedias/​eng/​nut/​k/khartoum.html. Frederick Warne & Co Ltd. London. 1900.
 
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