Alodia was a medieval Nubian kingdom in what is now central and southern Sudan. Its capital was the city of Soba, located near modern-day Khartoum at the confluence of the Blue and White Nile rivers. Founded sometime after the ancient kingdom of Kush fell, in around 350 AD, Alodia is first mentioned in historical records in 569.
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Alodia was a medieval Nubian kingdom in what is now central and southern Sudan. Its capital was the city of Soba, located near modern-day Khartoum at the confluence of the Blue and White Nile rivers. Founded sometime after the ancient kingdom of Kush fell, in around 350 AD, Alodia is first mentioned in historical records in 569. It possibly reached its peak during the 9th–12th centuries when records show that it exceeded its northern neighbor, Makuria. By around 1500 Soba had fallen to either Arabs or the Funj. This likely marked the end of the kingdom, although some Sudanese oral traditions claimed that it survived in the form of Fazughli within the Ethiopian–Sudanese borderlands. While many Alodian sites are known, only the capital Soba has been extensively excavated. A new multidisciplinary research project is scheduled to start in late 2019 and include several churches, a palace, cemeteries and numerous small finds. The extent of the Alodians influence to the south is unclear, although it is likely that it bordered the Ethiopian highlands. The northern region of the region of Darfur is lacking evidence, but evidence is lacking from the southern region of Nubia as well. The heartland of the. kingdom was the Gezira, a fertile plain bounded by the White Nile in the west and the Blue Nile. in the east.
The region extended from Aswan in southern Egypt to an undetermined point south of the confluent of the White and. Blue Nile rivers, among them Soba. To the west, it corresponded with Al-Jeblien, which was controlled by Makuria and probably extended as far south as Jebel al-Ahdin, near the modern border to South Sudan. Some scholars suggest a more southerly location nearer the Noabbara River, nearer the Mogad Island of Abu Hamad, nearer to Abu Mogad, near Mogad. The southernmost known Alodist sites are in the proximity of Sennar, in the northernmost outpost of Al-Ababab, which has been identified as Al-Ahbab al-Abbara. The most important of these are the Islamic geographers al-Yaqubi, Ibn Hawqal and al-Aswani, who both visited the country, and the Copt Abu al-Makarim. The events around the Christianization of the country in the 6th century were described by the contemporary bishop John of Ephesus; various post-medieval Sudanese sources address its fall. In contrast to the White. Nile Valley, the blue Nile Valley is rich in known AlODian archaeological sites, among one Soba,. Soba is approximately 2. 75 km2 in size and is covered with numerous mounds of brick rubble previously belonging to monumental structures. Al- Ahbab may have been the most important outpost of Noabab.
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