Aliab Dinka
(most common name)

(local/other name):
• Dinka
• Dinka Aliab

The Aliab Dinka is a Nilotic Sanga.

The Aliab Dinka is named after the southeastern Dinka people from the Aliab Valley (a low floodplain west of the White Nile).

The Aliab Dinka is the oldest variety of the Nilotic Sanga cattle populations, also the largest and best developed with the longest horns.

NOTE: As of 2021, there is no listing in DAD-IS for the Aliab Dinka in Ethiopia or South Sudan.

This page was last updated on: 2023-05-13

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