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In 1672, Evliya who was assigned to deliver the letter of Ibrahim Pasha, governer of Egypt, to the master of Funj. In the journey, after leaving Cairo, he visited more than forty cities. His observations in this visiting are considered as important in terms of social, economic and cultural history of the district. In walk-through Evliya Çelebi has travelled the eastern coast of the Nile and as to return part he toured the western shore, starting from city of Ibrim. It is possible to read his observations both from Seyahatname and The Map of the Nile. In both sources, the author has told of geographical characteristics (such as climate, flora, geographical formations, water, wealth sources), trade, military structure, administration, speech of folk, living conditions and religion. Between a lot of places which he has told in walk through and return part, to restrict the topic, Suakin, Dahlak, Massawa, Harkova, Zeila nad Mogadishu were chosen and his observations about such important cities are evaluated

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