Shendy, a town in Lower Nubia, on the right bank of the Nile, 100 miles NNE. below Khartoum, with a trade in salt, wool, carpets, ostrich-feathers, &c., and a pop. of about 5000 (40,000 prior to its destruction by the Egyptians in 1822).
Shendy
Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 9: Bound to Swansea, p. 390
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