الجغرافية الاستراتيجية للمملكة السنارية (1821-1504 م)‎

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This research is concerned with the strategic geography of Sennar Kingdom (1504-1821).

The aim of the research was to identify the strategies followed by the Arab tribes in Nubia before the beginning of the Kingdom of Sennar as well as to identify the strategies followed by the kings of the Kingdom of Sennar at the beginning of the emergence and the end of the Kingdom.

The research aimed to analyze the strategic natural and human geographic factors which contributed to the construction of the Kingdom of Sennar, which was a strong kingdom, lasted more than three centuries.

As well as to show the economic, social and political successes which reached by the Kingdom of Sennar through the implementation of plans according to elements of strategic geography in the Kingdom.

Data has been collected from books and historical and geographical sources relevant to the history of Phong in general and geopolitics and strategy in particular.

The research revealed that the Arab tribes of Abdalab and Funj, before they established a state with political borders, sought to form a nation that supported and advocated them, through mating and mixing and the dissemination of the Arabic language and Islamic culture in Nubian country.

Then after the fall of the kingdom of Makra and the kingdom of Alwa were met and alliance in Arbaji to form Union Sinari to help in the establishment of a strong state.

The study also found that the strategic natural geographical factors from the location, size, and shape of the state and the emergence of the decision-making area in a central area are among the biggest factors that helped maintain its geographical depth and the enemy’s inability to penetrate it for more than three centuries.

The strategic geographical factors also helped to create a human, economic, and social diversity that linked the country to the outside world, but when the state was weakened by the seditions and plots fell into the hands of the Turks in 1821.

The research recommended that studies in the field of strategic geography should be taken to benefit from their positives and avoid their negatives.