Provides an overview of Sudan, including key dates and facts about this northeast African country.
- Kerma kingdom, based in the southern part of Nubia, present-day northern and central Sudan. It is finally absorbed into the New Kingdom of Egypt.- Following the late Bronze Age collapse of civilisations across the eastern Mediterranean, the Kingdom of Kush emerges as a Nubian state centred on the confluences of the Blue Nile and White Nile rivers.639-64114th and 15th Centuries- Sultanate of Sennar or Blue Sultanate, based in Sudan, north-western Eritrea and western Ethiopia.
The British-appointed governor, General Gordon is killed when the city falls to Mahdist forces.- Britain seeks to re-establish their control over Sudan, nominally in the name of the Egyptian Khedive, but in reality as a British colony. Britain fears other colonial powers would take advantage of Sudan's instability to acquire territory previously annexed to Egypt.- General Kitchener leads military campaigns, culminating in a decisive victory at the Battle of Omdurman in September 1898.
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