Shendi or Shandi (Arabic: شندي) is a small city in northern Sudan, situated on the southeastern bank of the Nile River 150 km northeast of Khartoum.

[4] The connection is supported by the Daju oral tradition of a former riverine distribution and ancient locality to Shendi before their migrations west into Kordofan and Darfur.

[citation needed] Shendi's location in the middle of several geographical areas and tribal entities along with being at the crossroads of trade routes has led to the city playing a great political and commercial role.

This is due to multiple factors; the area being located near the river, the relative height being higher than the lowlands submerged by the seasonal flood waters of the Nile, its suitability for continuous cultivation and the availability of grasses and pastures in it that help graze and domesticate animals.

He praises Shendi for its market full of goods and merchandise, surrounded by orchards and irrigated fields located on the banks of the Nile River.

He mentioned that the weekly market in Shendi is the largest of its kind in Nubia, and is located at the intersection of two land based trade routes, with cattle, horses, gum arabic, tobacco, honey, coffee, sheep and other commodities coming from central and southern Sudan and the western lowlands of Abyssinia via Sinnar and sugar, white cotton and copper yellow coming from Egypt, via Berber.

[9] Seasonings and spices from India and glassware and sweets from Europe came via the port of Suakin on the Red Sea[10] Bruce mentioned that a woman named Sitna was ruling Shendi.

On his way to Swaken via Kassala he joined a trade caravan consisting of more than 200 head of camels, 150 merchants accompanied by their families, 300 slaves, and 30 horses that were dedicated to Yemen.

[11] To avoid suspicion, he claimed that he was a small merchant who wanted to go to the Upper Nile in search of a cousin of his who disappeared a few years ago, on a trip to the city of Snar.

Shendi remained for the rest of the nineteenth century an unknown village to the invaders, and its market shifted north to Khartoum, the capital of the Turkish-Egyptian rule at the time.

The German traveler Alfred Brim described in his book, Plans of a Journey from Northeast Africa, the city of Matma, located on the left bank of the Nile, as an extension of the New Shendi, and its wealth of gold, silver, and leather tanning.

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Mobile telephone coverage exists within the city, the neighboring towns of Al-Misiktab and Al-Mattamah, the outlying villages, and at the ancient Meroitic pyramids to the north.