Sultanate of Darfur
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The Sultanate of Darfur was a pre-colonial state in present-day Sudan. It existed from the 16th century to 1874, when it fell to the Sudanese warlord Al-Zubayr Rahma Mansur, and was re-established aga
Corpse of Ali Dinar
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
Sultanate of Darfur
…largely to the subjection of the semi-independent Arab tribes who lived in the country, notably the Rizeigat, thousands of whom he slew. In 1821, the Turco-Egyptians under Muhammad Ali, who planned to conquer the Sudan and compile a large slave army, conquered the Funj and the province of Kordofan from el-Fahl. The…
Sennar, the former capital of the Funj Sultanate, in the 1830s.
Sudanese Battalion in Mexico 1863–1867, fighting for Maximilian I
Sudan Meroe Pyramids 2001