Mahdist Sudan: All Data

This page is about the data available for this polity, the chronology of the events of the polity is available here.

Was a state based on a religious and political movement launched in 1881 against the Khedivate of Egypt, which had ruled Sudan since 1821. The Mahdist rebels overthrew the Ottoman-Egyptian administration and established their own "Islamic and national" government with its capital in Omdurman. Its existence was terminated by the Anglo-Egyptian forces in 1898.