8 ATLASES
History of Sudan in maps
Sudan as it appears in 8 interactive history atlases, from 1910 to 2015: Sudan, Anglo-Egyptian Sudan. Each era below lists who ruled the land and when control changed, linked to the dated map that shows it.
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What was Sudan before it was Sudan? The sections below follow this land through every era covered by the Maps of History atlases: who ruled it, what it was called, and when control changed. Each line links to the dated map. Modern borders serve as an approximation, as each atlas says on the map itself.
Sudan · Industrial Revolution
| Colony or dependency — the opening position | |
| Colony or dependency |
INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION: EVERY CHAPTER AND MAP →
Sudan · Meiji Japan and post-Soviet Russia
MEIJI JAPAN AND POST-SOVIET RUSSIA: EVERY CHAPTER AND MAP →
Anglo-Egyptian Sudan · WWI
| Entente-aligned & imperial territories — the opening position |
Sudan · Stalin’s Soviet Union
STALIN’S SOVIET UNION: EVERY CHAPTER AND MAP →
Anglo-Egyptian Sudan · Road to WW2
| Colonial empires & possessions — the opening position |
ROAD TO WW2: EVERY CHAPTER AND MAP →
Sudan · Cold War
| NATO & core Western allies — the opening position | |
| Non-aligned & neutral |
COLD WAR: EVERY CHAPTER AND MAP →
Sudan · Decolonization of Africa
On 1 January 1956 Anglo-Egyptian Sudan chose independence rather than union with Egypt, setting an early precedent in the Nile valley. The new country also entered Africa’s longest civil wars, between the Arab-Muslim north and the African south. These conflicts continued on and off for half a century and eventually split Sudan. Freedom and internal conflict arrived together.
| British-ruled — the opening position | |
| Independent Africa |
DECOLONIZATION OF AFRICA: EVERY CHAPTER AND MAP →
Sudan · Feminism and the Tunisian Revolution
| Authoritarian, one-party or colonial rule — the opening position | |
| Partial or unequal; treaty signed only; transition | |
| No reform yet / outside this story |
FEMINISM AND THE TUNISIAN REVOLUTION: EVERY CHAPTER AND MAP →
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