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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 , See also:

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

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