Semna

The district of Semna extended for c.10km upriver from Uronarti, it southern boundary at Tila island, the boundary with Attiri and Duweishat. In the early 1960s the registered population was only 627 (Dafalla 1975, 337). The southern end of Uronarti lay c.3.5km below Semna. By the mid-twentieth century there was almost no permanent settlement on the west bank in the area north of Semna. The west bank had a covering of blown sand in most areas. On the east bank the only significant settlement north of Kumma (Kumme) was at Sukator (Sukkatoor) opposite Kajinjera. South of Sukator a palaeochannel ran