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Old Dongola

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Old Dongola
Old Dongola
Old Dongola
Old Dongola
Old Dongola
Old Dongola
Old Dongola
Old Dongola
Old Dongola
Old Dongola
Old Dongola
Old Dongola
Old Dongola
Old Dongola
Old Dongola
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| on the east bank of the Nile, Dongola, Sudan

Old Dongola 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 to the opposite side of the Nile during the nineteenth century, becoming the modern Dongola.
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