Nil

Source of the Nile River Boats think. The river originates at an altitude of 2000 meters on one of the arrays in East Africa and flows into Lake Victoria. From the lake it flows under the name of the Victoria Nile flows through Lake KIOGE and empties into Lake Albert, below which was named the Albert Nile. On all this over the river is mountainous in nature, for it has many rapids, waterfalls, why are formed. The biggest of them - Murchison Falls, which reaches a height of 40 meters. Upon leaving the Nile from the highlands to the plains, the waters slow down for. Here he is known by its Arabic name of Bahr al-Jabal, which means "River of Mountains". The largest tributaries of the Nile at this point - the river Bahr el-Ghazal and the Sobat. Below Co-baht river was named the White Nile. And in Ethiopia, the White Nile merges with the Blue Nile, which originates from the Ethiopian highlands, flowing from Lake Tana. Now the river is obtained the name by which she is known around the world .- Neil. It is the only African rivers that flows into the Mediterranean Sea and is the source of life in the arid deserts on both sides of its flow. Since ancient times, the Nile is the lifeblood of the people who settled along its shores. It is with its beaches due to the emergence of human history and existence of Egyptian civilization. It is therefore not surprising that the river god of the ancient inhabitants of the valley. Then it was believed that the Nile - the border between Asia and Africa. Bogotvorenie evoked the mysterious origin of the Nile River. People could not believe that such a watery river may begin to dry lifeless desert. Although even then some scientists Greeks claimed that the beginning of the Nile is the equator. The ancients were aware of two tributaries of the Nile Atbara and Blue Nile. When Pharaoh Peho II was dug canal, which connects the river with the Red Sea. Subsequently, this channel has been renewed pharaohs and rulers of Darius I, Ptolemy I, Ptolemy II and especially Trajan. Source of the Nile has long remained a mystery. Alexander of Macedon, when India won, took the river Indus in the upper stream of the Nile. The study was delayed for many reasons. Were among the major Muslim power on the African continent (the Muslims conquered North Africa in 700, and did not let the Christians on the continent), as well as resistance from the local population. Anyone, whether a simple traveler - the researcher or a conqueror, perished in a meeting with the Africans. Regrettably, the study of rivers of Africa and the continent itself was laid the beginning of the slave trade. It was only influenced by the ideas of the Enlightenment (late XVIII century) in Europe began to realize the immorality of such trade. In 1807 England banned and imposed severe penalties for traffickers. Start the Blue Nile found the Scot James Bruce. His expedition in 1770 went to the source of the river and found that the top of the Blue Nile in Ethiopia's highlands. But this way was in the side of the main channel. Although in 1961 after the birth of Christ on the orders of Emperor Nero sent here legions of Rome. And after some time in their footsteps on the Nile went to a Greek merchant Diogenes. He went to two large lakes, which were surrounded by snow-capped mountains. According to him, here is the source of the Nile. The Greek geographer Ptolemy almost one hundred went to lead this evidence, and calls the mountain moon. His description even now striking precision. But the records of the scientist came to light only after 1700 years. In 1848 two German missionaries opened a snow-covered Mount Kilimanjaro and Mount Kenya, and indeed found in these places two large lakes. They sent a report in the London Geographical Society, which was quick to send here Orientalist Richard Bergonie accompanied by John Speke to the expedition. After several months of tortuous journey, they were seriously ill, without belongings and animals, and the conductors fled. But they managed to open the Lake Tanganika. Next Speke went alone and got to the next lake, this huge, that the opposite shore was not visible. In honor of the Queen of England, he called it Lake Victoria, and also suggested that originates here, Neil. Speke went further and found the River Kagera, which is more distant sources of the Nile and Lake Victoria empties into the river rises in the Rwenzori mountains in what is now Burundi, and now she is considered the main source of the Nile. Two years later, the Englishman Samuel Baker and his wife Florence passed on the sacred river up from the Sudanese town Gondokoro. They discovered Lake Albert, and finally proved that the Nile flows out of Lake Victoria.