Sennaar (properly Sennar, sometimes also Sennaar), a city of the Eastern Soudan, stands on the Blue Nile, about 160 miles SSE. of Khartoum. Pop. 8000. It is the chief town of a district lying between the Blue and the White Nile, which was made an Egyptian province in 1820, but fell to the Mahdi in 1884. An account of the disastrous expedition of Hicks Pasha into this province in 1883 will be found in Colonel the Hon. J. Colborne's book, With Hicks Pasha in the Soudan (1885), and in Major Wingate's Mahdism and the Egyptian Sudan (1891).