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BATTAKHIN

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Originally appearing in Volume V03, Page 529 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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BATTAKHIN  ,

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African "
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Arabs " of Semitic stock . They occupy the banks of the Blue Nile near
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Khartum, and it was against them that General Gordon fought most of his battles near the
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town . Their sheikh, El Obeid, routed Gordon's troops on the 4th of September 1884, a defeat which led to the close investment of Khartum .

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