Sukkur, a town on the Indus (here spanned by a fine bridge), 28 m. SE. of Shikarpur; has rail communication with Kurrachee and Afghanistan, and considerable trade in various textiles, opium, saltpetre, sugar, &c.; 1 m. distant is Old Sukkur; the island of Bukkur, in the river-channel and affording support to the bridge, is occupied and fortified by the British.
Population (circa 1900) given as 29,000.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
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