Sunday 12 April 2015




Nubian City

Nubia is a city alongside the Nile river, located in Northern Sudan and Southern Egypt.
There were many Kingdoms in the Nubian classical Era. The last was collapsed in 1504 and divided between Egypt and Sennar sultanate. Due to which the Nubian population adapted Arabization. Later on Nubia was again united within Ottoman Egypt in the 19th century, and within Anglo-Egyptian Sudan from 1899 to 1956. , Nubia was known as Kush, or, in Classical Greek usage, included under the name Ethiopia (Aithiopia).

Nubian people (Nubians)

The term Nubian describes an ethnic group that originated in modern-day Sudan. Today, people of Nubian descent primarily live in Sudan, and inhabit the region between Wadi Halfa in the north and Al Dabbah in the south. The main Nubian groups from north to south are the Halfaweyen, Sikut, Mahas, and Dongola. They speak a variety of Nilo-Saharan languages in the Nubian language family. Nubian people have a long history dating back to dynastic Egypt, and Nubians even founded a dynasty that ruled upper and lower Egypt during the 8th century BCE. Ancient Nubians were famous for their skill and precision with the bow.



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