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Name: Egyptian conquest of Sudan

Type: Event

Start: 1820 AD

End: 1884 AD

Parent: Military Campaigns of Muhammad Ali

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Were a series of military expeditions of the nominally Ottoman Eyalet of Egypt in Sudan that resulted in the annexion of the region.

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  • November 1820: The main military opposition to the Egyptians in Sudan came from the powerful Shayqiyya confederation, which was defeated on 4 November at the battle of Korti.
  • January 1866: Suakin and the Red Sea coast were conquered by Egypt in 1865.
  • January 1871: Equatoria conquered by turkey.
  • January 1884: The Egyptians leave Mangbetu.
  • July 1820: When the Egyptians passed the second cataract of the Nile, the ruler of Say submitted.
  • June 1821: The Egyptian received the official submission of Badi VII of Funj.
  • July 1820: In 1820, the Egyptian army, led by Muhammad Ali Pasha, advanced into the territory between the first and second cataract of the Nile River. The kashif of Lower Nubia, a local ruler, submitted to the Egyptian forces, despite the territory being only nominally under Ottoman rule. This event marked the expansion of Egyptian control into the region.
  • January 1823: The Kordofan Campaign of 1822 was led by the Egyptian ruler Muhammad Ali Pasha and his son Ismail Pasha. They successfully conquered the territory of North Kordofan, which was part of the Egypt Eyalet at the time. This campaign was part of Muhammad Ali's efforts to expand his control over Sudan and establish Egyptian dominance in the region.
  • January 1841: A number of territories in modern Sudan and South Sudan were not conquered in the Egyptian conquest of 1822-24, but were added following campaigns in later years. In 1840, the regions of Kassala and Taka were added to the Egyptian domains.
  • October 1874: Sultanate of Darfur conquered by Rabih az-Zubayr.
  • August 1820: In 1820, during the Ottoman-Egyptian conquest of Sudan, the Mamluks, who were slave soldiers in Egypt, either surrendered or escaped from Dongola. This event marked the expansion of Egyptian control over the region.
  • February 1821: Ismail himself took the bulk of his forces on a march across the Bayuda Desert and reached the Nile at al-Buqayr, south of Ad-Damir seven days later. .
  • March 1821: The Egyptians reached Berber, which submitted without fighting.
  • January 1856: In 1855, the Upper White Nile region around Fashoda was part of the Egypt Eyalet.
  • December 1881: In November 1881, the territory of Mangbetu was occupied by the Egyptian Khedivate.

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