Shendi
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Shendi or Shandi is a small city in northern Sudan, situated on the southeastern bank of the Nile River 150 km northeast of Khartoum. Shandi is also about 45 km southwest of the ancient city of Meroë.
Pyramids of Meroë, near Shendi
Wood engraving from 1835 depicting the residence of the makk of Shendi
Funj Sultanate
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The Funj Sultanate, also known as Funjistan, Sultanate of Sennar after its capital of Sennar, or Blue Sultanate was a kingdom in what is now Sudan, northwestern Eritrea and western Ethiopia. Founded i
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.