WADY HALFA is a place (pop. 3500) on the right bank of the Nile, just below the second or great cataract. After the reorganisation of Egypt after the Soudanese rebellion this was taken as the southward limit of Egypt. It is named from a gorge where halfa grass or Esparto (q.v.) grows.
WADY HALFA
Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 10: Swastika to Zyrianovsk and Index, p. 519
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