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Amri people

ethnic group of Sudan

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 13, 2026
Entity authorityQ4748642 ↗
Source-derived summary

Amri (Arabic: العمري) is an Arabic ethnic group of Sudan. The members of this group speak Sudanese Arabic.

Amri live in Nubia, in Northern Sudan and were heavily affected by the building of Merowe dam. They refused to be settled in Wadi Al Mugadam instead of choosing to live around the reservoir shores. The resistance of the Amri people lead to Merowe Dam authorities to attack their villages with machine guns and heavy artillery killing three and injuring over 50 people in 2006.

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“Amri people” enters the record as ethnic group of Sudan. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Amri, people and ethnic can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2006—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Amri, people and ethnic.
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“Amri people” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Amri, people and ethnic provides the most credible route into that argument.

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Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 13, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q4748642. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2006.

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This entry incorporates text from “Amri people” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.