Northern (Ash Shamaliyah) is one of the 26 wilayat or states of Sudan. It has an area of 348,765 km2 and an estimated population of approximately 600,000 (2000). Dongola is the capital of the state. The town of Wadi Halfa, a headquarters of the British in the late nineteenth century, is located in the north of the province. Anglo-Egyptian Sudan had eight mudiriyas, or provinces, which were ambiguous when created but became well defined by the beginning of the Second World War. ... Foreign relations Main article: Foreign relations of Sudan Sudan has a territorial dispute with Egypt over the Halaib Triangle. ... Dongola (also spelled Dunqulah or Dunqula and formerly sometimes known as El Ordeh) is a city in northern Sudan, on the banks of the Nile. ... Wadi Halfa is a town in Northern State, Sudan, on the shores of Lake Nuba (the Sudanese section of Lake Nasser). ...
Bahr al Jabal | Blue Nile | East Equatoria | Al Jazirah | Junqali | Kassala | Khartoum | Lakes | North Bahr al Ghazal | North Darfur | North Kurdufan | Northern | Al Qadarif | Red Sea | River Nile | Sennar | South Darfur | South Kurdufan | Unity | Upper Nile | West Equatoria | West Bahr al Ghazal | West Darfur | West Kurdufan | White Nile | Warab Anglo-Egyptian Sudan had eight mudiriyas, or provinces, which were ambiguous when created but became well defined by the beginning of the Second World War. ... Large flag of Sudan Image originally derived from the public domain flags of the CIA World Factbook. ... Bahr al Jabal is one of the 26 wilayat or states of Sudan, with an area of 22,956 km2. ... Blue Nile Blue Nile (An Nil al Azraq) is one of the 26 wilayat or states of Sudan. ... East Equatoria East Equatoria (Sharq al Istiwaiyah) is one of the 26 wilayat or states of Sudan. ... Al Jazirah is one of the 26 wilayat or states of Sudan. ... Junqali is one of the 26 wilayat or states of Sudan. ... Kassala is one of the 26 wilayat or states of Sudan. ... Khartoum Khartoum (also Al Khartum) is one of the 26 wilayat or states of Sudan. ... Lakes (Al Buhayrat) Lakes (Al Buhayrat) is one of the 26 wilayat or states of Sudan. ... North Bahr al Ghazal North Bahr al Ghazal (Shamal Bahr al Ghazal) is one of the 26 wilayat or states of Sudan. ... North Darfur North Darfur (Shamal Darfur) is one of the 26 wilayat or states of Sudan. ... Shamal Kurdufan (Northern Kordofan) is one of the 26 wilayat or states of Sudan. ... Al Qadarif is one of the 26 wilayat or states of Sudan. ... South Darfur South Darfur (Janub Darfur) is one of the 26 wilayat or states of Sudan. ... South Kurdufan (Janub Kurdufan) is one of the 26 wilayat or states of Sudan. ... West Kurdufan (Gharb Kurdufan) is one of the 26 wilayat or states of Sudan. ...
It borders Egypt to the north, the Red Sea to the northeast, Eritrea and Ethiopia to the east, Kenya and Uganda to the southeast, Democratic Republic of the Congo and the Central African Republic to the southwest, Chad to the west, and Libya to the northwest.
Sudan is situated in Northern Africa, bordering the Red Sea, between Egypt and Eritrea.
Largest Christian denominations are the Roman Catholic church, the Episcopal Church of the Sudan, the Presbyterian Church in the Sudan and the Coptic Orthodox Church.
The church in NorthernSudan was heavily centralised with ecclesiastial heirarchy and a separation between the clergy and the laity.
Hence, Christianity in NorthernSudan was a religion of the educated elite and not of the common man. The churches were also strong in the towns and cities but had far less of an impact amongst the rural farming communities.
The over-dependence of NorthernSudan on foreign bishops and priests later starved the church of leadership as the Muslim armies cut off all contact between Egypt and Nubia in the thirteenth century.
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