The Blue Nile (Amharic: ጥቁር አባይ, romanized: t’ikʼuri ābayi; Oromo: Mormor or Abbayaa, lit. 'father of streams'; Arabic: النيل الأزرق, romanized: an-Nīl al-ʾAzraqu) is a river originating at Lake Tana in Ethiopia. It travels for approximately 1,450 km (900 mi) through Ethiopia and Sudan. Along with the White Nile, it is one of the two major tributaries of the Nile and supplies about 85.6% of the water to the Nile during the rainy season.
supporting agriculture and fishing. The Nile has two major tributaries: the White Nile and the BlueNile. The White Nile is traditionally considered to be the...
BlueNile State (Arabic: ولاية النيل الأزرق Wilāyat an-Nīl al-ʾAzraq) is one of the eighteen states of the Republic of the Sudan. It was established by...
Nile (Arabic: النيل الأبيض an-nīl al-'abyaḍ) is a river in Africa, the minor of the two main tributaries of the Nile, the larger being the BlueNile....
Nileblue (or Nileblue A) is a stain used in biology and histology. It may be used with live or fixed cells, and imparts a blue colour to cell nuclei...
conflict in South Kordofan and BlueNile was an armed conflict in the Sudanese states of South Kordofan and BlueNile between the Sudanese Armed Forces...
compositions both as a co-founder of the BlueNile and for his solo material. Buchanan was the writer of the BlueNile's album Hats, which was identified by...
Darfur (2003–2020) Sudanese conflict in South Kordofan and BlueNile (2011–2020) BlueNile clashes (2022–2023) Mahdist War (1881–1899) Heglig Crisis (2012)...
by the BlueNile and by the Atbarah River into the Nile, while a less important amount flows through the Sobat and the White Nile into the Nile. During...
"The Downtown Lights" is a song by Scottish band The BlueNile, released in 1989 as the lead single from their second studio album Hats. It was written...
The BlueNile rift is a major geological structure in the Sudan, a rift with a NW trend that terminates on the Central African Shear Zone. It was formed...
A Walk Across the Rooftops is the debut album by Scottish band The BlueNile, released on 30 April 1984 on Linn Records in the UK and on A&M Records in...
The BlueNile and White Nile rivers meet in Khartoum to form the Nile, which flows northwards through Egypt to the Mediterranean Sea. The BlueNile's course...
central African sources – the White Nile, the BlueNile, and the Atbara – totals some 1,600 km. The White Nile, which begins at Lake Victoria in Uganda...
BlueNile. He spent more than a dozen years in North Africa and Ethiopia and in 1770 became the first European to trace the origins of the BlueNile from...
"Tinseltown in the Rain" is a song by Scottish pop band The BlueNile. It was released as the second single from their 1984 debut album A Walk Across...
BlueNile University (Arabic: جامعة النيل الأزرق, Jām'ah al-Nīl al-azraq) is a public university located in Damazeen, Sudan. It was established in 1995...
divided into North and South Kordofan. Gezira and White Nile were split off from BlueNile. River Nile split off from Northern. Red Sea was split off from...
Nile red (also known as Nileblue oxazone) is a lipophilic stain. Nile red stains intracellular lipid droplets yellow. In most polar solvents, Nile red...
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