Qualla: Dotawo https://qualla.com/dotawo en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:21:29 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_res/siteimages/rsslogo.png Qualla: Dotawo https://qualla.com/dotawo Dotawo: Introduction https://qualla.com/dotawo/ A letter from 1484 still named the king: Joel of Dotawo. It was mentioned alongside nobles, church officials, and the bishop of Selim - the machinery of a Christian state grinding on in the Nile valley while Mamluk sultans, Ottoman garrisons, and Arab sheikhs divided up the world around it. For centuries scholars treated Dotawo as a shrunken successor state, a husk left after Makuria's collapse. The Qasr Ibrim archives have since rewritten that story. Dotawo, it turns out, was what the Nubians themselves called their kingdom.

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]]> Thu, 23 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/e/y/q/dotawo-wp/seyq-dotawo-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Dotawo: A Kingdom Hidden in Its Own Name https://qualla.com/dotawo/ For decades, historians assumed Makuria and Dotawo were separate things. Arab chroniclers wrote about Makuria. The Old Nubian documents recovered from Qasr Ibrim in the 1960s wrote about Dotawo. The names of kings seemed to conflict. Something had to be a successor state, a break...

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]]> Thu, 23 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/e/y/q/dotawo-wp/seyq-dotawo-a-kingdom-hidden-in-its-own-name.mp3 0:06 2 full Dotawo: The Court at Daw https://qualla.com/dotawo/ Around 1364 or 1365, according to the Egyptian chronicler al-Maqrīzī, fighting devastated the old capital at Dongola, and the Nubian court moved north to a place called Daw. Many modern scholars identify Daw with Gebel Adda, a fortified mountain settlement in Lower Nubia whose cr...

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]]> Thu, 23 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/e/y/q/dotawo-wp/seyq-dotawo-the-court-at-daw.mp3 0:06 3 full Dotawo: The Portuguese Rumor https://qualla.com/dotawo/ Tradition placed the end of Dotawo around 1500, absorbed into the Funj Sultanate that consolidated south of it. Then, in 2023, the historian Adam Simmons pointed to an overlooked passage in Terceira Década da Ásia by the Portuguese chronicler João de Barros. De Barros wrote of a ...

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]]> Thu, 23 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/e/y/q/dotawo-wp/seyq-dotawo-the-portuguese-rumor.mp3 0:06 4 full Dotawo: Reading the Silence https://qualla.com/dotawo/ Almost everything we know about Dotawo we read from fragments. A will. A sale contract. A letter from a bishop. A psalter. The Qasr Ibrim archive is the largest single cache of Old Nubian writing ever found, and even it is a keyhole. The kings named in those documents - Moses Geo...

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