Alodia

Alodia, or Alwa, was a Christian Nubian kingdom centred on Soba near the junction of the Blue and White Niles. By 1337 it was shrinking, with its former province of al-Abwab already independent.

Arab settlement spread along the Nile. Around 1500 Soba fell, perhaps to Abdallah Jammah's Arabs or to the Funj under Amara Dunqas. The Funj founded Sennar in 1504, while Nubian Christians sent envoys to Ethiopia seeking priests in 1520.