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Old Dongola - Definition

Old Dongola is a town in Sudan, on the east bank of the Nile opposite the Wadi Milk. It is fifty miles upstream from (New) Dongola.

It was an important city in ancient Nubia. From the fourth to the fourteenth century it was the capital of the Makurian state. Old Dongola was the departure point for caravans west to Darfur and Kordofan.

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