Makuria
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Makuria was a medieval Nubian kingdom in what is today northern Sudan and southern Egypt. Its capital was Dongola in the fertile Dongola Reach, about halfway between the 3rd and 4th Nile cataract.
A model of the Faras Cathedral at the state of its excavation in the early 1960s. The rediscovery of the church and its magnificent paintings revolutionized the knowledge of Christian Nubia.
Burial within a tumulus of the tumulus field of Kassinger Bahri (second half of the 4th century–early 6th century)
A Nubian archer on a Portuguese manuscript from the 16th century
The Hisn el-Bab castle opposite of (now submerged) Philae Island at the southern end of the First Nile Cataract marked the border between Egypt and Makuria from the 7th–12th centuries.
Funj Sultanate
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The Funj Sultanate, also known as Funjistan, Sultanate of Sennar or Blue Sultanate was an Islamic kingdom in what is now Sudan, northwestern Eritrea and western Ethiopia. Succeeding the medieval Nubia
Makuria
…the Ottomans occupied Lower Nubia, while the former Makurian territories south of the 3rd cataract, including Dongola, had been annexed by the Islamic Funj Sultanate by the early 16th century. Makuria is much better known than its neighbor Alodia to the south, but there are still many gaps in our knowledge. The most…
Contemporary albeit romanticizing depiction of Sultan Badi III receiving Theodor Krump.
A Funj king of Sennar and his ministers as represented in a book by Félix Mengin, 1823
Sennar in 1821
At the time of the Egyptian invasion in 1821 the palace of Sennar was already in ruins.