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Flags used in Anglo-Egyptian Sudan (1914–1922)
Flags used in Anglo-Egyptian Sudan (1922–1956)
Flag after the 20 May 1970
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💡 Fact file:
- Located in the northeastern Africa
- Derives from the Arabic expression bilād al-sūdān (“land of the blacks”)
- Just before the south was split off Sudan was the largest African country, with an area that represented more than 8 percent of the African continent and almost 2 percent of the world’s total land area.
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The history of Sudan:
- 20.000 - 30.000 BCE - Khartoum in Mesolithic times (Middle Stone Age): The first inhabitants settled Sudan of what can be declared as African territory.
- Those people were hunters and gatherers who made pottery and (later) objects of ground sandstone.
- Neolithic Period (New Stone Age; 10,000–3,000 BCE): These Africans had domesticated animals and were clearly in contact with predynastic civilizations (before c. 2925 BCE) to the North in Egypt.
- Introducing Egyptian cultural influence to the African peoples who were scattered along the riverbanks.
- 200 years after fall of Kush to the middle of the 6th century, Nubia was inhabited by a people called Nobatae.
- Due to the arrival of Christian missionaries in the 6.th century the middle course of the Nile was divided into three kingdoms.
- 1315 CE the Islamic influence took place in the Northern states.
- In July 1820 Muḥammad ʿAlī sent an army to Nubia. His goal was to conquer Nubia.
- 19th century: Great Britain interested in Sudan (trade market)
- More and more british/egyptian influence and rule over Sudan
→ Mahdi revolt 1855 (movement against British power over Sudan)
- 1898: Britain recapturing Sudan and using it for their economy
- 1956: No longer a British colony
Independence:
- 1956: Formation of the republic Sudan under Arabic power