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Shendi
Shendi is a town on the east bank of the Nile in northern Sudan, near the ruins of ancient Meroë. In the 18th and early 19th centuries it was one of the largest markets of the Nile valley, a meeting point of caravans from Egypt, the Red Sea and the interior, described by the traveller Johann Ludwig Burckhardt in 1814. It was the seat of the Ja'alin chiefs, and in 1822 the Egyptian prince Ismail was killed there.
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