Wadi Halfa

[ wah-dee hahl-fuh ]

noun

1. a former town in the N Sudan, on the Nile: now under the waters of Lake Nasser, created by the Aswan High Dam in S Egypt.

Wadi Halfa

/ ˈwɒdɪ ˈhælfə /

noun

1. a town in the N Sudan that was partly submerged by Lake Nasser: an important archaeological site

Example Sentences

The Egyptian frontier had been set back as far north as Wadi-Halfa.

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Prokesch copied one in the ruins of Wadi Halfa, splendid in blue and gold, with a serpent wound round it.

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I have seen his likeness enshrined in wattle huts at Omdurman and Wadi Halfa.

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Wadi Halfa was the military station, Tewfikieh a little frontier town to the north separated from Halfa by a mile of river-bank.

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Calder was the one man in Wadi Halfa who could claim something like intimacy with Durrance.

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