The Atbarah Research Station of the Sudanese Department of Agriculture in Atbarah has a special mission for preserving and improving the Butana breed.
In 1929 he dedicated the first church building at Atbarah Railway Station.
while Reclus (1886) noted the opinion of Schweinfurth (1874) and before him Lejean (1862?) thought that they might be identified with the Makaberab tribe of Atbarah (in what is now northeastern Sudan).
They are also renowned for their skill in building mud houses (Galus, جالوص) and they used to float wood from the region of Atbarah (cf. TAIYEB 1969:3, SALIH 1999:152).
Mohamed Elkhedr (born 22 February 1988 in Atbarah, Sudan) is a Sudanese swimmer specializing in freestyle.
Sudan Television operates three stations located in Omdurman, Al Jazirah, and Atbarah.
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It is bordered by the Nile from Khartoum to Atbarah, by the Atbarah River from Atbarah to Ethiopia, by the Ethiopian border from the Atbarah River to the Blue Nile, and by the Blue Nile from Ethiopia to Khartoum.