The Dinder River (Arabic: Nahr Ad-dindar, also spelled Dindar) is a tributary of the Blue Nile. Arabic (ar الْعَرَبيّة (informally ar عَرَبيْ) in terms of the number of speakers is the largest living member of the Semitic language A tributary is a Stream or River which flows into a mainstem (or parent river The Blue Nile ( Amharic: ዓባይ transliterated ʿ Abbai, but pronounced Abbai; Arabic: النيل الأزرق transliterated It flows through Ethiopia and Sudan for 480 kilometres (300 mi). NOTE This intro is the result of careful NPOV work Please do not make potentially controversial edits to it without first discussing on the talk page Sudan (officially the Republic of Sudan) ( السودان al-Sūdān is a country in northeastern Africa. [1]
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The Dinder River rises in the Ethiopian Highlands, west of Lake Tana in the Ethiopian woreda (ward) of Alefa. The Ethiopian Highlands are a rugged mass of mountains in Ethiopia, Eritrea (which is sometimes referred to as the Eritrean Highlands) and northern Lake Tana (also spelled T'ana, Amharic: ጣና ሐይቅ Ṭānā Hāyḳ,"Lake Tana" an older variant is Tsana, Ge'ez Woreda (also spelled wereda) is an Administrative division of Ethiopia (managed by a local government equivalent to a District. Alefa is one of the 105 Woredas in the Amhara Region of Ethiopia. It flows northwest out of the highlands and into the plains of the Sudanese state of Sennar. Below is a list of the 25 states of Sudan organized by their original provinces under British rule Sennar ( Arabic: سنار is one of the 26 wilayat or states of Sudan. It meanders across the plains to join the Blue Nile near the town of Sennar. A meander in general is a bend in a sinuous watercourse also known as an oxbow loop or simply an Oxbow. Sennar (also Sannār) ( Arabic: سنار is a town on the Blue Nile in Sudan that is the capital of the state of Sennar. [1]
The major town on its banks is Er Roseires. Er Roseires is a town in eastern Sudan 60km from the border with Ethiopia.
The Dinder National Park of Sudan, which stretches south from the Dinder, is named after the river.
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- ^ a b Dinder River. This is a list of Streams and Rivers in Ethiopia A Abay River - Adabay River - Akaki River - Akobo This is a list of Streams and Rivers in Sudan A Adda River - Akobo River - Angereb River - Anseba Encyclopædia Britannica Online Library Edition. Encyclopædia Britannica. Retrieved on 2008-01-22. 2008 ( MMVIII) is the current year in accordance with the Gregorian calendar, a Leap year that started on Tuesday of the Common Events 565 - Eutychius is deposed as Patriarch of Constantinople by John Scholasticus.
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