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  1. Town in the Northern Province of the Sudan,
  2. above the third cataract on the river Nile.
  3. It was founded about 1812 to replace Old
  4. Dongola, 120 km/75 mi up river, which was
  5. destroyed by the Mamelukes. The latter, a
  6. trading centre on a caravan route, was the
  7. capital of the Christian kingdom of Nubia
  8. between the 6th and 14th centuries.
  9.