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The flag of the 'Kingdom of Dongola' (Makuria) in the "Book of all kingdoms" (C. 1350)
Libro del Conosçimiento de todos los rregnos · Public domain
Polity Middle East

Makkura

500 CE – 1518 CE · 1,018 years

Medieval kingdom in Lower Nubia

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Real dates from Wikidata, checked against the atlas.

These are real dates: Makkura's founding and dissolution are recorded in Wikidata, and accepted here only because they agree with the centuries the atlas independently drew it in. The atlas itself draws the world at 11 moments in time, not continuously. The strip below covers those snapshots — 500 CE to 1400 CE — which sits inside the fuller span above.

500 CE 11 snapshots 1400 CE
500 CE600 CE700 CE800 CE900 CE1000 CE1100 CE1200 CE1279 CE1300 CE1400 CE

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602 CE – 628 CE

Dated moments inside this span

Events the timeline places between 500 CE and 1518 CE.

548 CE St. Catherine's Monastery & Mount Sinai 548 CE St. Catherine's Monastery 600 CE Muscat 602 CE Byzantine–Sassanid War of 602–628 615 CE Mosque of the Companions 622 CE Al-Masjid an-Nabawi (Prophet's Mosque)

And in the rest of the world

Records running through the same years, on the other side of the map.

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