Turco-Egyptian Sudan
Turco-Egyptian Sudan | |||||||||||||
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| 1820–1885 | |||||||||||||
Map of Egypt with the Egyptian Sudan in the south | |||||||||||||
| Status | Administrative division of Eyalet of Egypt, Ottoman Empire (1820–1867) Administrative division of Khedivate of Egypt, Ottoman Empire (1867–1885) | ||||||||||||
| Capital | Khartoum | ||||||||||||
| Common languages | Arabic, Ottoman Turkish, English | ||||||||||||
| Religion | Sunni Islam (official) Coptic Orthodox Christianity African traditional religions | ||||||||||||
| Government | Constitutional monarchy | ||||||||||||
• 1820–1848 (first) | Muhammad Ali Pasha | ||||||||||||
• 1879–1885 (last) | Tewfik Pasha | ||||||||||||
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| 1820 | |||||||||||||
| 1885 | |||||||||||||
| Currency | Egyptian pound | ||||||||||||
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Turco-Egyptian Sudan (Arabic: التركى المصرى السودان), also known as Turkish Sudan or Turkiyya (Arabic: التركية, at-Turkiyyah), describes the rule of the Eyalet and later Khedivate of Egypt over what is now Sudan and South Sudan. It lasted from 1820, when Muhammad Ali Pasha started his conquest of Sudan, to the fall of Khartoum in 1885 to Muhammad Ahmad, the self-proclaimed Mahdi.