Kingdom of Alwa 1. Soba-ware pottery shards. (London: British Museum). Largest fragment is 10.8 cm. Soba was the capital of the Christian Kingdom of Alwa. Alwa corresponds to the area dominated by the Noba after the collapse of Meroë. The city was located on the Blue Nile, southeast of Khartoum. In tradition, the king of Alwa was converted to Christianity by the missionary Longinus in about 580 A.D. By the 10th century, this kingdom was apparently quite prosperous, perhaps because of slave trading with Kordofan to the south. Here in the upper reaches of the Nile, Moslem influence grew, and the people in time adopted Islam. The kingdom eventually fell to the Funj ruler in the early sixteenth century. 2. Glass vessel of Moslem manufacture found in the Moslem quarter of Soba, capitol of Alwa. Probably 14th c. A.D. (London: British Museum). 28 cm.
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By Mohammed Abdelsalam Almahdi
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