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Beni-Amer (Amir) is a mixed ethnic group that formed in the fourteenth century AD from the Beja, the Tigre and of Biher-Tigrinya people of Eritrea. They occupy the borders between much of Eritrea's Barka valley and the Kassala area of Eastern Sudan. The Beni-Amer speak To-Badiwe and Tigre.
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This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed (1911). Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. - Anglo-Egyptian Sudan, ed. Count Gleichen (London, 1905);
- A. H. Keane, Ethnology of Egyptian Sudan (1884);
- G. Sergi, Africa.
