Kordofan

Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)

2026 Editor's Note: This page uses language about race that was commonplace when the book was published and is offensive by today's standards. The text has been left exactly as it was printed, rather than cut or softened, so that the historical record — including how ordinary such language once was — is preserved. (Ed: ET 2026-07-22) or THE WHITE LAND, from Dar-Für on lately a province of the Egyptian Sudan; desert; ares estiseparated from Sennaar on the E. by miles; pop. about the White Nile, and from Dar-Fûr on is traversed by the W. by a strip of desert; area estifound almost mated at 41,500 square miles; pop. about ratively short ng; the females horn-The prince is traversed by is no rivers; but water is found almost depth. The chief produce of the soil is millet, the principal food of the inhabmill itants. Gum trees, mimosas, thorny L. Three fifthe plants abound, but there is no forest timettled; the rest ber. Gums, hides, ivory, ostrich feathrines belong ers, and gold are exported. Three-fifths but use of the population are settled; the rest batly pagans, nomadic. The aborigines belong of nomad and are mainly to the Nuba stock, but use a th negro tongue and are mostly pagans. he end of There is a large element of nomad and was con slave-hunting "Arabs," Moslems in faith. then by The capital is El-Obeid. In the end of 21 the 18th century Kordofan was conbut of quered by the ruler of Sennaar, then by the sultan of Dar-Fûr; in 1821 it was annexed by Mehemet Ali of Egypt, but was lost to the Egyptians by the Mahdi's revolt in 1883. When the Egyptian Sudan was officially organized in 1899, Kordofan became one of its provinces.