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  • Deim Zubeir

  • Deim Zubeir

    Deim Zubeir is a historical site located in Western Bahr el Ghazal State, South Sudan. The site was founded in the 1860s by the Sudanese merchant Al-Zubeir Rahma Mansur as a trading center for ivory and enslaved people. It later became a major center of the 19th-century slave trade, featuring fortified enclosures, underground trenches, and holding areas for captives.
    The site is included on the UNESCO Tentative List under the official name, Deim Zubeir – Slave Route Site.
    UNESCO Tentative List
    Deim Zubeir
    Mari Aftret MORTVEDT, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
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    Deim Zubeir

    UNESCO Tentative List

    Date of Submission

    2017

    fortification

    Castles and Fortresses

    Location

    South Sudan

    Western Bahr el Ghazal

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    19th Century AD

    Turco-Egyptian Sudan

    Turco-Egyptian Sudan

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    Turco-Egyptian Period Monuments

     

     

     

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