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Soba
Vanished settlement · Alodia
- Abandoned
- 1504
- Founded
- 400
- Population
- —
- Coordinates
- 15.524, 32.681
Why it was abandoned
🏛️ Ancient ruins
Detected automatically from the text: Соба — развалины древнего города средневековой Нубии в современном Судане.
History
Soba is an archaeological site and former town in what is now central Sudan. It was the capital of the medieval Nubian kingdom of Alodia from the sixth century until around 1500. E. A. Wallis Budge identified it with a group of ruins on the Blue Nile 19 kilometres (12 mi) from Khartoum, where there are remains of a Meroitic temple that had been converted into a Christian church.