Sennar

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Coordinates: 13°33′N 33°36′E / 13.55, 33.6
Sennar
Sennar Location in Sudan
Country	Sudan
State	Blue Nile State
Population (2007)
- Total	143,059

Location of Sennar within Sudan

For other uses, see Sennar (disambiguation).

Sennar (also Sannār) (Arabic: سنار) is a town on the Blue Nile in Sudan that is the capital of the state of Sennar. For several centuries it was the capital of the Funj Kingdom of Sennar. The modern town lies close to the ruins of the ancient capital. It is located close to Sennar Dam, which spurred agricultural activity when it was created in 1925 for crop irrigation.

In fact there are today tow towns bearing the name Sennar.Sennar Junction,the older one, which represents an actual continuation to the ancient Sennar, both in time and geographical location factors, although the word junction came from the fact that many railways intersect at it, as being in the heart of the country, which accompanied the invasion of Sudan during the British colonisation of Sudan by the end of eighteenth century. The other is Sennar Al-Madeena (i.e Sennar Town) that located beside the Sennar Dam as stated previously. Actually it was built over the ruins of a small village called (Mok-waar) which was very famous in the former cultures of the tribes of African origins who were living there before the arrival of Arab tribes to the Sudan.