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  • Suakin

  • Suakin

    Suakin or Sawakin is a port city in north-eastern Sudan, on the west coast of the Red Sea. It was likely Ptolemy's Port of Good Hope which is similarly described as lying on a circular island at the end of a long inlet.
    The site is included on the UNESCO Tentative List under the official name, Suakin.
    UNESCO Tentative List
    Suakin
    by Bertramz, GFDL or CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
    Suakin
    by Bertramz, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
    Suakin
    by Bertramz, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
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    Suakin

    UNESCO Tentative List

    Date of Submission

    1994

    city

    Historic Cities and Regions

    Location

    Sudan

    Red Sea

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    3rd Century BC

    Ptolemaic

    Roman + Byzantine+ Islamic

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    Mixed Monuments

     

     

     

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