The name Taqali refers to a group of foot-hills in Central Sudancovering an area of approximately forty square miles. Unlike the surrounding Kordofan, the uplands of the hills are fertile and , thereby suitable for agriculture and higher population density. The  state was centered upon the Taqali Massif, the highest part of the hills in the northeast of the region , but its early history is unclear.
<meaning-changed> The name Taqali refers to a group of foot-hills in Central Sudancovering an area of approximately forty square miles. Unlike the surrounding Kordofan, the uplands of the hills are fertile and , thereby suitable for agriculture and higher population density. The  state was centered upon the Taqali Massif, the highest part of the hills in the northeast of the region , but its early history is unclear.
Taqali (also spelled Tegali) was a state of Nuba peoples which existed in the Nuba Mountains, in modern-day central Sudan. It is believed to have been founded in the eighteenth century, though oral traditions suggest its formation two centuries earlier. Due in part to its geographic position on a plateau surrounded by desert, Taqali was able to maintain independence for some 130 years despite the presence of hostile neighbours. It was conquered by Sudanese Mahdists in 1884 and restored as a British client state in 1889. Its administrative power ended with the 1969 Sudanese coup, though the Makk of Taqali, its traditional leader, retains ceremonial power in the region. state was centered upon the Taqali Massif, the highest part of the hills in the northeast of the region , but its early history is unclear.