The
Kingdom of Makuria (
Old Nubian: Ⲙⲁⲕⲟⲩⲣⲓⲁ,
Makouria; ,
al-Muqurra) was a
kingdom located in what is today Northern
Sudan and Southern
Egypt. Makuria originally covered the area along the
Nile River from the Third
Cataract to somewhere between the Fifth and Sixth Cataracts. It also had control over the trade routes, mines, and oases to the east and west. Its capital was
Dongola (
Arabic: Dunqulah), and the kingdom is sometimes known by the name of its capital.