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Kordofan

• former Sultanate
• former Province
• own name: Kurdufan

Contents

• Flag

• Meaning/Origin of the Flag

• Map

• Numbers and Facts

• History

• Origin of the Country's Name

Flag

Flag of Kordofan,
ratio = 2:3,
Source: World Statesmen

Meaning/Origin of the Flag

The flag of Kurdufan shows a camel on a dark yellow background. It may be an allusion to the Old Kurdufan, which was an important crossroads of caravan routes mainly by the oasis of El-Obeid. Kurdufan was one of the original provinces of the Sudan. Today it is divided into three provinces: Northern Kurdufan, Western Kurdufan and South Kurdufan. The flag is still used in Northern Kurdufan. The former sultanate probably had no own flag.

Source: Volker Preuß

Map

interactive Map of the Sudan:

Source: Freeware, University of Texas Libraries,
modyfied by: Volker Preuß

Numbers and Facts

Area: 145.230 square miles

Inhabitants: ca 3.000.000 (1983), mostly Arabs, in the south even: Fulbe, Dinka, Bongo, Tagale and Nuba

Density of Population: 21 inh./sq.mi.

Capital: El-Obeid (Al-Ubayyid), 418.280 inh. (2012)

official Language: Arabian

other Languages: English, regional languages

Currency: Sudanese currency

Time Zone: GMT + 2 h

Source: Wikipedia (EN), RetroBib Retrobibliothek, World Statesmen

History

antiquity · settlement by the tribes of the Nuba and Tagalog

ca. 600 · christianization

900–1500 · Islamic-Arabian attacks, islamization

ca. 1640 · Kordofan becomes a part of Darfur

1650 · founding of the Sultanate of Kordofan by Sultan Muhammad II.

1779 · Kordofan is conquered by the Sultanate of Sennar and annexed as a province, arabization

1784 · Kordofan is conquered by the Sultanate of Darfur

1821 · Kordofan becomes an Egyptian provinze

1881–1898 · anti-Egyptian and clerical revolt under the leadership of the Mahdi, Mohammed Ahmed called Mahdi, establish of the the Mahdi empire

1883 · Kordofan is conquered by the expanding Mahdi-Staate, and becomes an important center of the Mahdi State

1885 · Death of the Mahdi, Khalifa Abdullahi succeedes

1898 · battle of Omdurman, destruction of the Mahdi State by british-egyptian troops

1899 · Kordofan becomes a province of the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan

1st of January in 1956 · Egypt and United Kingdom grant independence to Sudan → Republic of Sudan

1994 · Kordofan becomes divided into three provinces

since 2003 · conflicts between Arabs and African tribes in the south

Source: Wikipedia (D), Wikipedia (EN), RetroBib Retrobibliothek

Origin of the Country's Name

"Kordofan" is originally the name of a group of hills, about 200 km in the south of El Obeid. In the here common Koldagi language is the word "Kurdu" to translate with "man".

Source: "Reisen in Nubien, Kordofan, und dem Peträischen Arabien" von Eduard Rüppell, Frankfurt, 1829