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...Nile floodplain, this was the only definitely attested monastery in Lower Nubia. It appears to have been founded at the very beginning of the Christian per ...

...of a large cathedral and a bishopric before the conversion of the rest of Nubia. The Bishop of Philae was the de facto head of the Nubian church in its ear ...

...region should be forever submerged. As a result, the archaeology of Lower Nubia (from the First to the Second Nile Cataracts) has been more thoroughly inve ...the Aswan High Dam brought a flood of renewed salvage archaeology to Lower Nubia in the 1960s, this time much of it conducted by persons who were neither Eg ...

...uires forty days and from Aswān to Fusṭāṭ<ref>Yaqūt : "from Aswan to Lower Nubia".</ref> five. Their country is similar to Yemen. They have citrus fruits (' ...

Nubia is quintessentially the land of the famous Nile Cataracts (First, Second, T ...peasant population of Egypt. Except in its most southerly part, therefore, Nubia may be described as a country 1000 km long and 1 km wide. ...

herders in Lower Nubia in 2003. For the next three years, ...

...es plus one or more churches. Because of the limited agrarian resources of Nubia, they were seldom anywhere near as large as the peasant villages of Egypt. ...the region of ''Batn el-Haggar'', although there were also a few in Lower Nubia. Most villages had only a single "castle-house," alongside a much larger nu ...

...in Nubia was ''durra'' (sorghum), grown in the summer months. In medieval Nubia measures of sorghum were commonly used as media of exchange, in place of cu Since in most of Nubia the Nile does not regularly overflow its banks, as it does seasonally in Eg ...

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lower, that is toward Arabia. In Egypt is the land of Rameses and the in largeness. And between Egypt and Nubia it hath well a twelve journeys ...

...eaty, called the ''Baqt'', was negotiated, which guaranteed the freedom of Nubia from Arab invasion, and from the imposition of Islam, in return for an annu ...endence of a non-Muslim nation. It was under this protective umbrella that Nubia's Christian civilization grew and flourished. There are several recorded ve ...

...habent pilos super spatulas sicut cameli et tondentur sicut oves. In eadem Nubia oves pariunt agnos cornutos, et cornua in terra illa non habent tantum arie ...trutionem sunt quatuor digiti: sed de strutione quae est in provincia quae Nubia vocatur, posterius dicemus. Est enim opinio aliquorum non omnino hoc animal ...

[[Toponyms and Ethnonyms for Nubia]] – catalogue number in the Dated Texts from Nubia database.<br> ...

...ice of his officers despatched reinforcements to Fustāt (Miṣr) and sent to Nubia and the Beja for help</ref> wrote the letter and sent it to the king of the ...gage part of the enemy, keep harassing them to gain time until relief from Nubia and from the king of the Beja arrive!" They said: "Your order is very wise, ...

...ine. ... Three among them (lie in) the desolate lands of the South, beyond Nubia, close to Jabal al-Qamar , from which ten rivers rise. (Minorsky, p. 35). ...Nile. From the frontier of ''Uswān'' and the beginning of the frontier of Nubia it runs due north and enters Upper Egypt. The other mountain is on the west ...

...ine. ... Three among them [lie in] the desolate lands of the South, beyond Nubia, close to Jabāl al-Qamar , from which ten rivers rise. (Minorsky, p. 35). ...Nile. From the frontier of ''Uswān'' and the beginning of the frontier of Nubia it runs due north and enters Upper Egypt. The other mountain is on the west ...

...usium) on the eastern bank of the Nile, and another on the west bank, from Nubia to Alexandria; this wall is called: "The Wall of the Old Lady" (''hā'it al- ...as a result, became Jacobites. The whole of Egypt, both the upper and the lower districts, also became Jacobites, with the exception of the church of Micha ...

– catalogue number in the Dated Texts from Nubia database. ...ed for the purposes of the PhD thesis ''Chronological Systems of Christian Nubia'' by the author.<br><br> ...

...until a place called ''Hall ad-dujāj''. They, too, remove their upper and lower incisors lest - they say they resemble the teeth of asses; they also pull o ...God will give back to us a part of what He has taken away! But the King of Nubia said to them: 'Beware of those crows — and he meant the Blacks (''as-sūdān' ...