Berber

Berber, a town on the right bank of the Nile, below the confluence of the Atbara. It is a station on the route from Khartoum to Cairo, and a point to which caravans come from Suakin on the Red Sea. In the course of General Graham's operations against Osman Digna in 1885, a railway was projected from Suakin to Berber, and the work was actually begun, but was ultimately abandoned when military protection was taken away. The pop. is about 8000.