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Concept
Alodia
Summary
Infobox Former Country
| native_name =
| conventional_long_name = Alodia
| common_name = Alodia
| region =
| era = Middle Ages
| status =
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| empire =
| government_type = Monarchy
| year_start = 6th century
| year_end = 1500
| event_start = First mentioned
| date_start =
| event_end = Destroyed
| date_end =
| event1 =
| date_event1 =
| event_pre =
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| p1 = Kingdom of Kush
| flag_p1 =
| s1 = Funj Sultanate
| flag_s1 = Royal Funj "wasm" (branding mark).png
| s2 =
| flag_s2 =
| s3 = Kingdom of Fazughli
| flag_s3 =
| s4 = Kingdom of al-Abwab
| flag_s4 =
| image_flag = Possible Flag of the Kingdom of Alodia (c. 1350).svg
| flag =
| flag_type = Possible flag according to the Catalan Atlas of 1375
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| image_map = Approximate extension of Alodia based on accounts of Ibn Hawqal.png
| image_map_caption = Estimated extent of Alodia in the 10th century
| image_map_alt = A map showing the extent of Alodia in the 10th /
| capital = Soba
| national_motto =
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| common_languages = NubianMeroitic(Possibly still spoken) Greek (liturgical) Others
| religion = Coptic Orthodox ChristianityTraditional African religion
| currency =
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| today = SudanEritrea
Alodia, also known as Alwa (Aρουα, Aroua; علوة, ʿAlwa), was a medieval kingdom in what is now central and southern Sudan. Its capital was the city of Soba, located near modern-day Khartoum at the confluence of the Blue and White Nile rivers.
Founded sometime after the ancient Kingdom of Kush fell, around 350 AD, Alodia is first mentioned in historical records in 569. It was the last of the three Nubian kingdoms to convert to Christianity in 580, following Nobadia and Makuria. It possibly reached its peak during the 9th–12th centuries when records show that it exceeded its northern neighbor, Makuria, with which it maintained close dynastic ties, in size, military power and economic prosperity.
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