Alodia is a female name of Latin origin that means "Foreign Wealth." It is associated with Saint Alodia from the 9th century. The name has historical significance, as it was the name of a medieval kingdom in what is now central Sudan, with its capital in the city of Soba. The kingdom of Alodia was the last of the three Nubian kingdoms to convert to Christianity, and it reached its peak in the 9th–12th centuries, being a large, multicultural state administered by a powerful king. The name Alodia is linked to a rich history of trade, literacy in Nubian and Greek, and the decline and fall of the kingdom due to invasions, droughts, and the shift of trade routes. The legacy of Alodia is also tied to the possibility of its survival in the form of the Kingdom of Fazughli within the Ethiopian–Sudanese borderlands.