Kurti
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Krtn |
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Coordinates: 18 ° 7 ' N , 31 ° 33' E
Kurti (alternative spelling Korti , Arabic كورتي) is a city in the state of Ash-Shamaliyya i Sudan . The city is located on the Nile around 250 km northwest of Khartoum at the mouth of the Wadi Muqaddam . The main part of the city lies on the southern side of the Nile.
In Meroitic times the place appears as Cadetum , Cadata or Coetum in Roman sources.
history
The place is possibly identical to Krtn , which is mentioned in some Napatan inscriptions. Before 500 AD, Krtn was one of the cities that the king visited at the beginning of his reign on his coronation journey .
In Sudan, which came under the rule of the Ottoman viceroys ( Khedives ) of Egypt from 1821, the Mahdi uprising broke out around 1880 . In August 1884 Great Britain sent an army under Garnet Joseph Wolseley , the so-called Gordon Relief Expedition, to relieve Governor Gordon, who was besieged in Khartoum . Kurti became the rallying point for the British troops. In January 1885, a fort was built by British troops on the north side of the Nile, directly across from Kurti. From here the advance on the Nile ( River Column ) and through the desert ( Camel Corps ) should take place simultaneously. In the fighting in the Bayuda desert between Kurti and Metemmeh (on the Nile opposite Shendi ) the Mahdists suffered a defeat in the battle of Abu Klea . Muhammad Ahmad , known as the Mahdi , who in the meantime led the siege of Khartoum himself, decided to break it off, but his generals changed his mind.
Individual evidence
- ↑ According to the writing in the large inscription of Arikamaninote , line 44/45