Anglo-Egyptian Sudan
| Anglo-Egyptian Sudan | ||||||||||
| السودان اﻹنجليزي المصري | ||||||||||
| Condominium of the United Kingdom and Kingdom of Egypt | ||||||||||
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Anthem God Save the King/Queen |
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Green: Anglo-Egyptian Sudan
Light green: Ceded to Italian Libya in 1934 Dark grey: Egypt and the United Kingdom |
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| Capital | Khartoum | |||||||||
| Languages |
English (official) Nubian Beja Nuer Dinka Fur Shilluk Arabic |
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| Religion |
Christianity Animism Sunni Islam |
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| Political structure | Condominium of the United Kingdom and Kingdom of Egypt | |||||||||
| Historical era | British Imperial | |||||||||
| • | Established | 19 June 1899 | ||||||||
| • | Self-rule | 22 October 1952 | ||||||||
| • | Independence | 1 January 1956 | ||||||||
| Area | ||||||||||
| • | 1951 | 2,505,800 km² (967,495 sq mi) | ||||||||
| Population | ||||||||||
| • | 1951 est. | 8,079,800 | ||||||||
| Density | 3.2 /km² (8.4 /sq mi) | |||||||||
| Currency | Egyptian pound/gineih | |||||||||
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| Today part of |
 Egypt Libya South Sudan Sudan
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Anglo-Egyptian Sudan (Arabic: السودان الإنجليزي المصري as-Sūdān al-Inglīzī al-Maṣrī) referred to the manner by which the Sudan (comprising the present countries of Sudan and South Sudan) was administered between 1899 and 1956, when it was a condominium of the United Kingdom and Egypt, but in practice the structure of the condominium ensured full British control over the Sudan. Moreover, between 1914 and 1922, Egypt was formally part of the British Empire.
In 1820, the army of Egyptian wāli Muhammad Ali Pasha, commanded by his son Ismail Pasha, gained control of Sudan. The region had longstanding linguistic, cultural, religious, and economic ties to Egypt and had been partially under the same government at intermittent periods since the times of the pharaohs. Muhammad Ali was aggressively pursuing a policy of expanding his power with a view to possibly supplanting the Ottoman Empire (to which he technically owed fealty) and saw Sudan as a valuable addition to his Egyptian dominions. During his reign and that of his successors, Egypt and Sudan came to be administered as one political entity, with all ruling members of the Muhammad Ali dynasty seeking to preserve and extend the "unity of the Nile Valley". This policy was expanded and intensified most notably by Muhammad Ali's grandson, Ismail Pasha, under whose reign most of the remainder of modern-day Sudan was conquered.
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