Then the Funj penetrated the Nuba Mountains and reduced the Kingdom of Tegali and the hills of al-Daiyr and Kurdufan into subordinate status.
The rest of Kurdufan remained to be a disputed area between the Funj, the Fur and the Mussaba
The newly acquired lands, like old chieftenships, were indirectly controlled from the centre and hence a kind of a lose federal system seemed to have prevailed.