History of Sudan
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The history of Sudan refers to the territory that today makes up Republic of the Sudan and the state of South Sudan, which became independent in 2011. The territory of Sudan is geographically part of
Sabu-Jaddi Rock Art site: Cattle
Aerial view of the Nubian pyramids at Meroë (2001), capital of the Kingdom of Kush
Nubian bishop and Virgin Mary on a wall painting from Faras (11th century)
The great mosque of Sennar, built in the 17th century.
Turco-Egyptian Sudan
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Turco-Egyptian Sudan, also known as Turkish Sudan or Turkiyya, describes the rule of the Eyalet and later Khedivate of Egypt over what is now Sudan and South Sudan. It lasted from 1821, when Muhammad
History of Sudan
…and inherited its boundaries from Anglo-Egyptian Sudan, established in 1899. For times predating 1899, usage of the term "Sudan" mainly applied to the Turkish Sudan and the Mahdist State, and a wider and changing territory between Egypt in the North and regions in the South adjacent to modern Uganda, Kenya and…
Sennar, the former capital of the Funj Sultanate, in the 1830s.
Sudanese Battalion in Mexico 1863–1867, fighting for Maximilian I