Khartoum. L’invenzione di una capitale (1898-1910)
Journal: SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología
Year: 2020

The city of Khartoum, the capital of present-day Sudan, strategically located at the crossroads of the crossings of the African continent, along the north-south and east-west routes, was rebuilt ex novo by the British, at the turn of the 19th-20th century. Founded in 1820 in the context of Turkish-Egyptian Egypt, it grew rapidly in the central decades of the 1800s, it was then sacked and partially destroyed after 1885 during the years of the Mahdist revolt. Following the British re-occupation of