Gezira Dabarosa
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On the west bank of the Nile 336 km upriver from Philae. An Early and Classic Christian settlement which originated in Ballana or possibly in Meroitic times. About one-third of the village was excavated by a University of Colorado Expedition in 1962 and 1963; the church was excavated by the Sudan Antiquities Service in 1962.
Sources: Adams 2005, 37-45. For the church, Adams 2005, 11-16; Adams 2010, 263-264.
(Contributed by William Y. Adams.)
