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The Funj Sultanate, also known as Funjistan, Sultanate of Sennar (after its capital Sennar) or Blue Sultanate (due to the traditional Sudanese convention...

The Funj are an ethnic group in present-day Sudan. The Funj set up the Funj Sultanate with Abdallah Jamma and ruled the area for several centuries. The...

Sudan from 1762 to 1821. During this period the ruling family of the Funj Sultanate of Sennar continued to reign, while actual power was exercised by the...

or the Funj in c. 1500. Centered around the mountainous region of Fazughli on the Blue Nile and serving as a buffer between the Funj sultanate and the...

southern Sudan, which lasted from the 6th to the early 16th century. The Funj Sultanate was founded in 1504 and at its peak ruled over an area covering parts...

late 18th and early 19th centuries, during the decline of the northern Funj Sultanate. In the 19th century, the Shilluk were affected by military assaults...

Alodia, the last holdout of Christian Nubia, was destroyed by the Funj Sultanate in 1504. During the 19th century the Sanusi order was highly involved...

al-Masalit Dar Qimr Funj Sultanate of Sinnar (Sennar) Kordofan in Iraq: Abbasid Caliphate (autonomous provinces) Ottoman Empire Ajuran Sultanate, in southern...

century. During the reign of Funj king Amara Dunqas (r. 1504–1533/4) the region is known to have become part of the Funj sultanate. Al-Abwab still has not...

main port and seizing Suakin from the allied Funj Sultanate in what is now Sudan. In 1573 the Adal Sultanate attempted to invade Ethiopia again however...

the 3rd cataract, including Dongola, had been annexed by the Islamic Funj Sultanate by the early 16th century. Makuria is much better known than its neighbor...

in establishing an independent state, but they were defeated by the Funj Sultanate in 1504 and thereafter ruled over the Butana as vassals until the Egyptian...

Ethiopian–Sudanese borderlands. After the destruction of Soba, the Funj established the Sultanate of Sennar, ushering in a period of Islamization and Arabization...

was pressure from the Shilluk that drove the Funj people north where they would establish the Funj Sultanate. The Dinka remained in the Sudd area, maintaining...

the 19th centuries, central and eastern Sudan were dominated by the Funj sultanate, while Darfur ruled the west and the Ottomans the east. In 1811, Mamluks...

Sudan near the Blue Nile. It may also refer to: Sennar (state), Sudan Funj Sultanate (1504–1821), also called the Kingdom of Sennar Plain of Sennar, the...

allied with the Sultanate of Darfur and the Kingdom of Takali against the Funj, but the capitulation of Takali ended the war in the Funj's favour. In the...

Muhammad Tayrab, Sultan (?–1785/6) Abd al-Rahman, Sultan (1785/6–c.1801) Funj Sultanate (complete list) – Badi III, Sultan (1692–1716) Unsa III, Sultan (1719–1720)...

The Funj Chronicle is an Arabic history of the Funj Sultanate and the early years of Ottoman rule in the Sudan. It originally covered the period from...

early 13th century, the Delhi Sultanate conquered the northern Indian subcontinent, while Turkic dynasties like the Sultanate of Rum and Artuqids conquered...