Kokka

Kokka is a city in the Mahas region , in Upper Nubia . The Kingdom of Kokka is named after this city.

The fall of the Nubian, Christian kingdoms of Nubia is still uncertain in many ways, but it does not seem to have been a military conquest that ended these kingdoms, but they seem to have slowly disintegrated and the population took over the Islamic one in the 16th century Believe.

The Christian kingdoms probably consisted of various small kingdoms, but very little is known about them. In the process of decay of the Christian empires, some of these petty kingdoms seem to have become independent. One of these minor kingdoms is probably the Kingdom of Kokka.

Very little is known about this realm and very little research has been done on it. The empire is very rarely mentioned in foreign sources. After all, there is a list of kings with 13 rulers. The first of these rulers was Melk AL-Nasir, who is said to have studied in Cairo , the last, Abdel Aziz b. Zubaeir d. Diab ruled already under Turkish rule ( 1878 - 1912 ). The family of these kings still lives locally. The history of the empire was mainly reconstructed from oral accounts. The structure of the court is strongly reminiscent of Christian traditions, which is why a Christian origin of the empire is assumed.

literature

• A. Osman: The Post-medieval Kingdom of Kokka , in Nubian Studies, edited by JM Plumley, Cambridge 1978, pp. 185-197, ISBN 0856681989

Coordinates: 20 ° 0 ′  N , 30 ° 34 ′  E