أيتام نيفاشا: المسيرية .... بقلم: د. عبد الله علي إبراهيم

Quote: left]It is claimed that the Dajo people were located in the region of Abyei prior to the seventeenth century, before being displaced by new migrants.[2] From at least the eighteenth century Abyei was inhabited by the agro-pastoralist Ngok Dinka, kin to the Dinka of Southern Sudan. The Messiria, a nomadic people, grazed their cattle through Abyei in an annual cycle.[3][4] The Messiria base is Muglad, where the Messiria spend much of the year, though they are forced to move south to the Bahr river basin in Abyei during the dry season.[5] Records from this time state that the Ngok Dinka and Messiria had amicable relations. At the establishment of the Anglo-Egyptian Condominium, the Messiria were predominantly located in the province of Kordofan (considered “northern”), while the Ngok Dinka were located in Bahr el Ghazal (considered “southern”). However, in 1905 the British redistricted the nine Ngok Dinka chiefdoms into Kordofan.[3][4]