Cold crow on the island 'ghost' in East Africa

Once a busy port, Suakin island town in Sudan has now become an abandoned land.

Suakin island town in northeastern Sudan has been an important cultural and commercial center of the East African Sea for centuries.

Suakin town lies on an oval flat island located at the end of a creek flowing from the Red Sea. The importance of Suakin town is no longer available when Port Sudan seaport was built in northern Sudan in the early 20th century. Over time, residents gradually left Suakin until it became a "ghost town ". ".

Suakin island town in northeastern Sudan.

Much of the primitive calendar of Suakin town is still mysterious when the site has never been thoroughly studied archeology. The town of Suakin is said to be the port of Limen Evangelis from the Roman church, when Ptolemy geographer described it on a circular island at the end of a long creek.

The Suakin name was first mentioned by geographer al-Hamdani in the 10th century. He wrote that it was an old town. At that time, Suakin was the opponent of another port in the Red Sea, Aydhab , located near Egypt. The Egyptians tried to control the port of Suakin from the local tribe Beja, so some conflicts occurred between these two groups. The confrontation between the two ports ended with the failure of Aydhab in the late 15th century. Since then, Suakin has become the most important port in the Red Sea until Port Sudan began operations in 1922. .

Suakin became the most important port in the Red Sea until Port Sudan began operations in 1922.

By the end of the 1930s, Suakin was completely abandoned and very few people lived there. Today, this island has nothing but ruins. Even so, some areas of the town are now restored and new buildings also appear in the north of the island.