A map of 19th-century rail and caravan routes in Sudan—including Korosko—from Churchill's 1899 River War.
Korosko was a settlement on the Nile River in Egyptian Nubia. It was located 118 miles (190 km) south of Aswan and served as the point of departure for caravans avoiding the Dongola bend in the river by striking out directly across the desert to Abu Hamad and thereby bypassing the second, third and fourth cataracts of the Nile. The "Korosko route" or "Korosoko road" was in use during the period of the New Kingdom (1550–1077 BC), when Pharaohs Thutmose I and Thutmose III marked it with boundary stelae. During the Meroitic period it was the main connection between the Kingdom of Kush and the Mediterranean world.[1]
Korosko was only replaced in this function by Wadi Halfa after the construction of the Sudan Military Railroad during the 1890s amid the Mahdi War. Although the railway employed a different gauge and was not connected to the Egyptian system, the two networks were connected directly by steamboat and Korosko, between them, diminished in importance.[2]
Its former location was flooded by Lake Nasser upon the completion of the Aswan High Dam.
^Richard Lobban, Historical Dictionary of Ancient and Medieval Nubia (Scarecrow Press, 2004), p. 233.
Korosko was a settlement on the Nile River in Egyptian Nubia. It was located 118 miles (190 km) south of Aswan and served as the point of departure for...
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straight across the Nubian Desert, a little west of the old caravan route to Korosko. The population of Abu Hamad is 69,056.[when?]A branch railway, 138 mi...
just south of Asyut—caused the site to eclipse the former caravan site at Korosko. In 1885, Wadi Halfa entered a period of turmoil after falling under the...
Nile and the Red Sea, with some settling along the trade route linking Korosko with Abu Hamad. Numerous traveler accounts from the nineteenth century...
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Bernac" January – March 1897 The Queen Serialised weekly "The Tragedy of the Korosko" May – December 1897 The Strand Magazine Serialised over eight instalments...
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unique position "was probably because the river on its approach to the Korosko bend flows in an 'unnatural' southeasterly direction". The Derr structure...
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Dom or Wadi Muqaddam, while another route went from near Abu Hamad to Korosko in Lower Nubia. A route going east originated around Berber near the confluence...
than furthering his plans to take over the Sudan". Travelling through Korosko and Berber, he arrived at Khartoum on 18 February, where he offered his...
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was to construct the road directly from the former caravan terminus at Korosko, but a shorter route to Wadi Halfa was employed instead, with the link...
supporting role. The story is inspired by the 1898 novel The Tragedy of the Korosko by Arthur Conan Doyle. An American woman in Egypt falls in love with a...
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of Wadi Halfa between 30 November 1885 and 11 January 1886 and south of Korosko on 3 August 1889. While most of those who received the Egypt Medal were...
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