Tributary network · approximate340 CE – 1312 · 972 years

Kingdom of Makuria

Name: War Atlas: Named Conflicts and Empire Borders, 3000 BCE – Present
Creator: War Atlas
Keywords: wars, military history, conflicts, empires, historical atlas, casualties

Overview

Makuria was a medieval Nubian kingdom in what is today northern Sudan and southern Egypt. Its capital was Dongola in the fertile Dongola Reach, about halfway between the 3rd and 4th Nile cataract.

Wikipedia: Makuria·CC BY-SA 4.0

Borders & accuracy

Tributary network

A paramount-chiefdom-style polity with tributary peripheries; exact extent is contested.

SOURCEhand-crafted from scholarly atlases
DETAILhand-crafted-from-atlases
SNAPSHOT900 CE
MATCHEDMakuria — Middle Nile c. 800 CE
POLITY TYPEtributary

Makuria along the Nile from Aswan to 6th cataract (Khartoum)

Also during this period

No conflict record yet names this polity as a belligerent; these overlap its dates only.

Mongol Conquests1206–1368
World-changing · 40M dead
Mongol Conquest of China1205–79
World-changing · 20M dead
Mongol Conquest of Song Dynasty1205–79
World-changing · 15M dead
An Lushan Rebellion755–763 CE
World-changing · 13M dead
Jiedushi (Military Commissioner) Rebellions755–880 CE
World-changing · 5.0M dead
Barbarian Invasions of the Roman Empire375–476 CE
World-changing · 1.0M dead

Open in the atlas →Seeks the timeline to 340 CE and fits the map to these borders.

Cite as: Kingdom of Makuria (340 CE – 1312). War Atlas. https://waratlas.org/e/africa-makuria-kingdom · Sources & methodology