Place:Al Jazirah, Sudan

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NameAl Jazirah
Alt namesAl-Jazīrahsource: Getty Vocabulary Program
El Gezirasource: Times Atlas of the World (1985) plate 87
El-Gezirasource: Britannica Book of the Year (1991) p 704
Gezirasource: Wikipedia
TypeState
Coordinates14.5°N 33.333°E
Located inSudan
Contained Places
General region
Al-Jazīrah
Inhabited place
Hosh
Kamlin
Manaqil
Masid
Mesellemiya
Rufaʿa
Umm Dhibbān
Wad Madani
source: Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names


the text in this section is copied from an article in Wikipedia

Al Jazirah, also spelled Gezira, is one of the 15 states of Sudan. The state lies between the Blue Nile and the White Nile in the east-central region of the country. It has an area of 27,549 km². The name comes from the Arabic word for peninsula. Wad Madani is the capital of the state.


It is a well populated area suitable for agriculture. The area was at the southern end of Nubia and little is known about its ancient history and only limited archaeological work has been conducted in this area. It was part of the kingdom of Alodia for several centuries and with that state's collapse in the early sixteenth century became the centre of the Funj Kingdom of Sennar.

The region has benefited from the Gezira Scheme, a program to foster cotton farming begun in 1925. At that time the Sennar Dam and numerous irrigation canals were built. Al Jazirah became the Sudan's major agricultural region with more than under cultivation. The initial development project was semi-private, but the government nationalized it in 1950. Cotton production increased in the 1970s but by the 1990s increased wheat production has supplanted a third of the land formerly seeded with cotton.

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