They formerly occupied the country on both banks of the Nile from Khartoum to Abu Hamad.
The attempt failed when the Abbas ran aground somewhere between Abu Hamad and Meroë.
Abu Dhabi | Abu Ghraib | Mount Abu | Abu Bakr | Mumia Abu-Jamal | Abu Zubaydah | Battle of Abu Klea | Abu Sayyaf | Abu Ghraib torture and prisoner abuse | Ahmed Omar Abu Ali | Abu Qubays | Abu Musab al-Zarqawi | Abu Mu'az al-Jeddawi | Abu Hamad | Adel Hassan Hamad | Abu Sufyan ibn Harb | Abu Omar al-Kurdi | 2010 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix | Tell Abu Hureyra | Sami Abu Zuhri | Abu Sa'id Mirza | Abu Sa'id (Ilkhanid dynasty) | Abu Saiba | Abu Mustafa al-Sheibani | Abu Marwan Abd al-Malik I Saadi | Abu'l-Fazl ibn Mubarak | Abu Dhabi (emirate) | Abu Abdullah al-Shafi'i | Abdul-Wahab Abu Al-Hail | Turki al-Hamad |
His father worked as a civil servant, a surveyor, and due to the nature of his work he visited different regions of Sudan, like the Nuba Mountains Region, El-Renk town in Upper Nile State, Blue Nile regions, Wad Medani town, Korti and Abu Hamad in Northern State.