Dongola


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Dongola

(ˈdɒŋɡələ)
n
(Placename) a small town in the N Sudan, on the Nile: built on the site of Old Dongola, the capital of the Christian Kingdom of Nubia (6th to 14th centuries). Pop: 16 900 (2001 est)
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It is to be noted that the committee, which is to submit its report within 48 hours was assigned to probe the Sunday incidents which happened before the electricity offices in Dongola city and left a citizen from Al-Selaim area in Dongola Locality dead.
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The Executive Chairperson of the Export Development Authority (EDA), Khaled Youssef, met with Malik Dongola, the president of the Sudanese Contractors Union (SCU), who is currently visiting Cairo.
He pointed out that the project has carried out architectural renovations that included temples, houses and mosques, as well as restoration of antiquities and murals especially Christian ones in the Old Dongola and Jebel Barkal.
On Sunday, al-Bashir arrived in the capital of the Northern State, Dongola to inaugurate a number of services and development projects.
The ancient Tomb of King Tantamani in El Kurru -Madnomad Blog We made a loop to visit Old Dongola, an abandoned settlement on a beautiful riverside spot which was inhabited from the 7th to the 14th century AD.
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Pickett, 84 of Auburn, passed away peacefully on Tuesday, April 28, 2015 at The Meadows Nursing and Rehabilitation Center surrounded by his loving family.Patrick is survived by his two sons, Shawn Pickett of Auburn and Patrick Downing and his wife Clare of Maine; two daughters, Kimberly Eddleman and her husband Larry of Dongola, IL and Kelly Stevens and her husband Ken of Murphysboro; his brother, Arthur Pickett of Florida; six grandchildren, Austin and Ashlee Pickett, Dustin Hoffman, Kayla Clarke, Holly and Kim Downing; four great grandchildren; many nieces and nephews.
Saad bin Abdullah Khalil, Director General of the Office of King Abdullah Initiative for Agricultural Investments Abroad, who is currently on a visit to Sudan, Abdulmajeed said that the Saudi delegation visited the proposed site where to start agricultural investment, expressing their willingness to invest in an area of 500,000 Feddan in the regions of Dongola and Al-Golid.