Jabal Awliya

{{Short description|Village in north-central Sudan}}

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Jabal Awliya ({{Langx|ar|جبل أولياء}}, Jabal al Awliyā', Jebel Aulia, Gebel Aulia) is a village in the north-central part of Sudan, about {{cvt|40|km}} south of Khartoum. Nearby is the Jebel Aulia Dam, built in 1937 by the British for the Egyptian government. Jabal Awliya became a refuge camp during the Second Sudanese Civil War, housing more than 100,000 inhabitants.

Jabal Awliya Airport

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The airport hosts Sudanese Air Force along with Sudanese Army and police.

The airport hosts three helicopter squadrons (Mil Mi-8, Mil Mi-17, Mil Mi-24, Mil Mi-35) from the base.{{cite web | url=https://www.scramble.nl/planning/orbats/sudan/sudan-air-force#HSFS528 | title=Orbats }} There is a short runway but only used as helipad with markings found midway.

On 26 February 1996, a C-130 transport plane of the Sudanese military crashed at Jabal Awliya, killing all 91 people on board.

References

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{{cite book | page=1705 | title=The New Century cyclopedia of names | volume=2 |editor1=Clarence Lewis Barnhart | publisher=Appleton-Century-Crofts | year=1954 }}

{{cite journal | title=The March of the Green Flag |date=May 1995 | page=78 | journal=Spin | volume=11 | issue=2 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bkSKIhZnTyEC&pg=PA78 | access-date=2011-03-29 }}

{{cite news | author=The Associated Press | title=Sudanese plane crashes; 53 die | work=Times Daily | date=May 5, 1996 | url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=73AfAAAAIBAJ&sjid=iMgEAAAAIBAJ&pg=6005,552095 | access-date=2011-03-29 }}

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{{Airports in Sudan}}

{{Districts of Khartoum}}

Category:Populated places in Khartoum State

Category:Populated places in White Nile State

Category:Villages in Sudan

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