Dongola

a Pleiades place resource

Creators: Gabriel Mckee

Contributors: Jeffrey Becker

Last modified Oct 01, 2019 08:17 AM — History

The late antique capital of the Nubian state of Makuria, Dongola remained an important center of trade through the medieval period.

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Canonical URI for this page:
https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/865674318

Representative Point (Latitude, Longitude):
18.2222606288, 30.7471128456

Locations:

OSM location of Old Dongola (AD 300 - AD 1450)

Names:

Dunqulah al Qadīmah (Arabic, modern)
دنقلا العجوز‎ (Dunqulā al-ʿAjūz: Arabic, modern)

Dongola makes connections with:

None

Dongola receives connections from:

None

Place type:
settlement

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Initial Provenance:
Pleiades

Details:

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Suggested citation:
Gabriel Mckee, and Jeffrey Becker, 'Dongola: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2019 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/865674318> [accessed: 11 December 2019]

Cite this resource in Wikipedia:

            {{cite web |url=https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/865674318 |title=Places: 865674318 (Dongola) |author=Mckee, G. |accessdate=December 11, 2019 2:11 pm |publisher=Pleiades}}

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