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Landmark Middle East archaeological

Kerma

2500 BCE – 1500 BCE · 1,000 years

Capital of the ancient Nubian Kingdom of Kerma in Sudan, one of the earliest urban centers in Africa

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Who held this ground

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Reconstruction

  1. Before it was built (3000 BCE)
  2. Kerma (2000 BCE) Border precision: Approximate
  3. Kush (1500 BCE–700 BCE) Border precision: Approximate
  4. Meroe (500 BCE) Border precision: Approximate
  5. Kush (400 BCE) Border precision: Approximate
  6. Meroe (323 BCE–400 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  7. Makuria (500 CE–1400 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  8. No border recorded here in this snapshot (1492 CE–1500 CE)
  9. Ottoman Empire (1530 CE–1700 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  10. Funj (1715 CE–1800 CE) Border precision: Defined
  11. No border recorded here in this snapshot (1815 CE)
  12. Egypt (1880 CE–1900 CE) Border precision: Defined
  13. Anglo-Egyptian Sudan (1914 CE) Border precision: Defined
  14. Sudan (1920 CE–2026 CE) Border precision: Defined
Border precision
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  • Approximate

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Conflict · Middle East

Umma–Lagash Border War

2500 BCE – 2350 BCE

Dated moments inside this span

Events the timeline places between 2500 BCE and 1500 BCE.

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