Ar-Ruṣayriṣ

Al-Rusayrisi lies on the Blue Nile in southeastern Sudan, where the river descends from the Ethiopian highlands towards the plains. This reach belongs to a landscape of wooded hills and river valleys near the country of the Funj. From the sixteenth century the sultanate centred on Sennar governed lands along the Blue Nile. Seasonal floods carried the highlands' rains downstream, sustaining riverbank settlements before the waters continued north.

The later city of Ad-Damazin lies nearby.