Dotawo’s later dynasties: a speculative history
Dotawo’s later dynasties: a speculative history

Author(s): Giovanni R. Ruffini
Subject(s): Archaeology
Published by: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
Keywords: medieval Nubia; Dotawo; Nubian kings; Nubian dynasties; Makouria; Alwa
Summary/Abstract: This article proposes speculative reconstructions of the genealogies of the royal families of the medieval Nubian kingdom of Dotawo. It synthesizes the literary, documentary and epigraphic evidence for Nubian kings and their families in the 1100s–1300s. The result is a series of family trees intended to produce a testable model. That model proposes that despite the apparent conflict between various contenders for the throne dynastic succession was the standard operating principle in Dotawo throughout the late medieval period; that peaceful stability was normative; and that a single family dynasty may have ruled Dotawo through the entire span of these several centuries.

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