Old Dongola (Old Nubian: ⲧⲩⲛⲅⲩⲗ, Tungul; Arabic: دنقلا العجوز, Dunqulā al-ʿAjūz) is a deserted town in what is now Northern State, Sudan, located on the east bank of the Nile opposite the Wadi Howar. An important city in medieval Nubia, and the departure point for caravans west to Darfur and Kordofan, from the fourth to the fourteenth century Old Dongola was the capital of the Makurian state. A Polish archaeological team has been excavating the town since 1964.
The urban center of the population moved downstream 80 km (50 miles) to the opposite side of the Nile during the nineteenth century, becoming the modern Dongola.
OldDongola (Old Nubian: ⲧⲩⲛⲅⲩⲗ, Tungul; Arabic: دنقلا العجوز, Dunqulā al-ʿAjūz) is a deserted town in what is now Northern State, Sudan, located on the...
should not be confused with OldDongola, a now deserted medieval city located 80 km upstream on the opposite bank. The word Dongola comes from the Nubian word...
The Throne Hall of Dongola, also known as the Mosque Building, is an archaeological site in OldDongola, Sudan. It is a two-storey brick building situated...
of Atlanersa, now in the Louvre Museum, may originate from Thebes. At OldDongola, a fragmentary obelisk bearing Atlanersa's name was discovered in a church...
based on the town of OldDongola, the centre of the historic Christian kingdom of Makuria (6th to 14th century). Today's Dongola was founded during the...
northern Sudan and southern Egypt. Its capital was Dongola (Old Nubian: Tungul) in the fertile Dongola Reach, and the kingdom is sometimes known by the...
The second battle of Dongola or siege of Dongola was a military engagement between early Arab forces of the Rashidun Caliphate and the Nubian-Christian...
followed by the Sun between solstices. A 12th/13th century mural from OldDongola, the capital of the Nubian kingdom of Makuria, depicts dancing masks...
considerable immigration of Arab tribes and native people from Sennar and Dongola (see oldDongola) into the country. The Sennari however suffered a decisive defeat...
of the Ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs inscribed on sandstone blocks in OldDongola in Sudan. In March 2023, archaeologists from the Ain Shams University...
Egyptian hieroglyphs inscribed on sandstone blocks was discovered in OldDongola, Sudan by Polish archaeologists. 4 A submerged prehistoric site with...
capital of OldDongola for Muslim travelers. By the middle of the 14th century, Nubia had been converted to Islam. The royal Church of Dongola was converted...
in 1272. In 1265 a Mamluk army allegedly raided Makuria as far south as Dongola while also expanding southwards along the African Red Sea coast, thus threatening...
column, presumably for one of the early Christian churches in the area of OldDongola. Today the obelisk is exhibited in the National Museum in Khartoum. The...
second cataract of the Nile River; in the middle was Makuria (capital OldDongola), and southernmost was Alodia (capital Soba). King Silky of Nobatia defeated...
They held out through the Middle Ages until the Kingdom of Makuria and OldDongola both collapsed in the early 14th century. Sufi orders played a significant...
Makuria centred at Tungul (OldDongola), about 13 kilometres (8 miles) south of modern Dongola; and Alodia, in the heartland of the old Kushitic kingdom, which...
The Dongola Reach is a reach of approximately 160 km in length stretching from the Fourth downriver to the Third Cataracts of the Nile in Upper Nubia...
fourth cataract of the Nile. It is situated 10 kilometres (6.2 mi) from OldDongola, the capital of Makuria. Banganarti was an important Christian pilgrim...
Makuria centred at Tungul (OldDongola), about 13 kilometres (8 miles) south of modern Dongola; and Alodia, in the heartland of the old Kushitic kingdom, which...
Darfur and Northern to join the Nile north of the great bend opposite OldDongola. Stretching over 1100 km: 25 in west–east direction across the southern...
orthodoxies. During the sixteenth century, Jesuits extended their mission into the old Kongo Kingdom, developing upon a preexisting Catholic mission which had culminated...
of OldDongola (modern Sudan) along the River Nile becomes the capital of the Kingdom of Makuria. Several churches are built, including the "Old Church"...
goes back to the town of Dongola (Tungul or OldDongola, where the Tungur name is derived from Tungul, the old name of Dongola) in Nubia. According to...
with the former ruled by an Eparch of the latter. Its king was based at OldDongola and its culture showed especially strong elements of Byzantine Greek...
Sainte-Marie in Souillac [fr] (c. 1130). The Throne Hall of Dongola, built in the 9th century at OldDongola, was used by the kings of Makuria, the most powerful...
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