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Welcome to Medieval Nubia!

This is a site dedicated to the collaborative publication of scholarly resources for the study of medieval Nubia. It is a site that will grow as scholars from the international community use and contribute to it. A preliminary list of resources appears below. All articles on this site can be edited by multiple people at once, and their edits can automatically appear on the live website, available for the world to use. If you are interested in editing or adding to one of the available articles, or if you would like to contribute a new scholarly resource of your own, feel free to contact us, and we can give you the necessary editorial access. If you are interested in launching a discussion group on a specific topic relevant to medieval Nubia, contact us and we can help you launch that group as well. We welcome any and all ideas for growing this site and making it useful to the widest number of people.

Featured Articles on Medieval Nubia:

A checklist of medieval Nubian Names.

Corrections and Additions to Gerald Browne's Old Nubian Dictionary.

A Guide to the Texts of Medieval Nubia.

Offices and Titles Occurring in Nubian Texts.

Toponyms and Ethnonyms Occurring in Nubian Texts.

Related Resources

Short articles on the Nubian kingdoms and major Nubian sites.

External links related to Nubian studies.

Read about how to join the Old Nubian Discussion Group.

Note: We are currently experimenting with features integrating this site into larger social networking platforms. Feel free to experiment with anything you see, but note that not everything will work as you might expect.