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Shalfak

🇸🇩 Sudan

Shalfak in Sudan
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Shalfak is an Ancient Egyptian fortress once built up on the western shore of the Second Cataract of the Nile River on what is now an island in Lake Nubia in the north of Sudan.

Text adapted from “Shalfak” on Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Shalfak ranks #3,986 of 5,793 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking. See how Sudan compares in the castle statistics.

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