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[edit] Rulers

Note that dates are quite uncertain for most Makurian rulers.

name	date of reign	comments
Qalidurut	c. 651/2	Signed the Baqt
Zacharias		Rebuilt Cathedral of Dongola
Merkourios	696-710
Simeon
Abraham
Markos
Kyriakos	c. 747-68
Khael or Mikhael	c. 785/94 - 804/13
Ioannes	Before 822? or c. 850?
Zakharias I	c. 835?-856/859/866	son of Ioannes
Georgios I of Makuria	856/859/866	son of Zakharias
Zakharias II	920-930
Kabil	c. 943
Georgios II	969 - c. 1002
Raphael	1000- c. 1006
Stephanos	c. 1027
Solomon	1077-1079/80	supposedly restored matrilineal succession
Georgios III	c. 1079/80
Basileios	c. 1089
Georgios IV	1130-1158	son of Basileios^[1]
Moses Georgios	c. 1158	son of Georgios IV^[2]
Murtashkar	c. 1268
David	c. 1268-1272
Shekanda	c. 1276
Barak	c. 1279
Semamun	c. 1286-1287/8	also Simamun
Nephew of Semamun	1287/8-1288
Semamun	c. 1288-1289
Nephew of David (Budamma)	c. 1289-1290
Semamun	c. 1290-1295
Ayay	c. 1304/5
Kernabes	1311-1316
Barschanbu	1316-1317
Kanz ed-Dawla	c. 1317
Kernabes	1323-1324
Kanz ed-Dawla	c. 1324
al-Amir Abi Abdallah Kanz el-Dawla	1333

Derek A. Welsby: The Medieval Kingdoms of Nubia, British Museum Press, London 2002, pp. 259-61 ISBN 0714119474