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Sennar Sultanate
Sign in to saveAlso known as Funj Sultanate of Sennar, Sinnar, Funj Monarchy, Funj Caliphate, Funj Kingdom, Blue Sultanate
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Key facts
- Capital
- Sennar
- Common languages
- Arabic (official language, lingua franca and language of Islam , increasingly spoken language) , Nubian languages (native tongue, increasingly replaced by Arabic)
- Religion
- Sunni Islam , Coptic Christianity
- Government
- Monarchy
- 1504 1533 4
- Amara Dunqas (first)
- 1805 1821
- Badi VII (last)
- Legislature
- Great Council Shura
- Conquered by egypt
- 14 June 1821
- Annexed to egypt province ottoman empire
- 13 February 1841
- Currency
- Barter After 1700:, Spanish Reals, Ottoman Para and Akçe
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Encyclopedic overview
Today part of Sudan Eritrea Ethiopia
^a. Muhammad Ali of Egypt was granted the non-hereditary governorship of Sudan by an 1841 Ottoman firman. ^b. The Funj mostly did not mint coins and the markets rarely used coinage as a form of exchange. Coinage didn't become widespread in cities until the 18th century. French surgeon J. C. Poncet, who visited Sennar in 1699, mentions the use of foreign coins such as Spanish reals.
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