ONE LAND · 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? Below, every era of this land in the Maps of History atlases — who ruled it, what it was called, and when control changed — each line linked to the dated map that shows it. Modern borders stand in as an honest approximation; every atlas says so 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
Anglo-Egyptian Sudan chose independence over union with Egypt on 1 January 1956 — an early flag, and a Nile-valley precedent. But independence also inaugurated Africa’s longest civil wars, between the Arab-Muslim north and the African south, that would run, on and off, for half a century and eventually split the country. 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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