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Funj Conquest of Soba

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Soba · Gezira · Sudan

Estimated casualties

Casualty figures unrecorded for this conflict.

Around 1504-05 the Funj under Amara Dunqas captured Soba, capital of the Christian Nubian kingdom of Alodia, founding the Funj Sultanate of Sennar that dominated the central Nile for three centuries.

Belligerents2

Funj Sultanate (Amara Dunqas)
Kingdom of Alodia (Alwa)

Sources

Wikipedia: Funj Sultanate
Histories of medieval Nubia and Sennar
Wikipedia — text reused under CC BY-SA 4.0

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