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- ...lso an important witness to cultural interchanges and interactions between Nubia and the outside world. ...s, and other joint publications (see 'A [[Guide to the Texts]] of Medieval Nubia' at this website). ...4 KB (607 words) - 18:00, 8 May 2011
- The “Corpus of Wall Paintings from Christian Nubia” is part of the major project “Corpus of the and iconographic particularities of the Christian wall paintings from the Medieval churches in ...5 KB (776 words) - 14:22, 7 March 2011
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- ...of Christian Nubia]]. Interested in: history of Late Antique and medieval Nubia and Egypt; Greek and Coptic epigraphy and papyrology. Currently working on: ...500 bytes (71 words) - 01:27, 11 April 2013
- ...rs 550 and 1500 as marking respectively the beginning and ending dates for Nubia's medieval civilization. Early Christian I: 600-700 ...1 KB (173 words) - 22:59, 18 January 2011
- ...e whole interior was densely filled with Late Christian houses, as well as Nubia's only two-story church. Three other small, late churches stood just outsid ...699 bytes (103 words) - 15:47, 20 January 2011
- ...ry beginning of the Christian period, with occupation continuing into Late Christian I times. Excavated by the Oriental Institute of Chicago in 1964 and 1965. ...521 bytes (78 words) - 15:31, 20 January 2011
- Nubia saracenorum. (''Nubia of the Sarracens.'' ...580 bytes (82 words) - 17:48, 11 April 2015
- ...tian Service des Antiquites in 1895; there has been no excavation of other Christian remains. ...933 bytes (150 words) - 23:31, 18 January 2011
- ...rstructures. According to historical sources, Meinarti in Classic and Late Christian times functioned as a control point for traffic on the river, and was a som ...1 KB (172 words) - 15:35, 3 March 2012
- ...t, Greco-Roman exploration in Africa, history of late antiquity, Christian Nubia, network theory. ...a include the recent study [http://www.amazon.com/dp/019989163X ''Medieval Nubia: A Social and Economic History''] and editions of the [[Meinarti Ostraka]] ...720 bytes (98 words) - 16:46, 22 April 2013
- ...unction with the print release of his ''Chronological Systems of Christian Nubia'' [= The Journal of Juristic Papyrology Supplement Series 16], Warsaw 2011) ...319 bytes (46 words) - 01:11, 9 December 2013
- ...les on Nubian Texts and Languages:''' A [[Guide to the Texts]] of Medieval Nubia and [[Old Nubian Literary Texts]]. '''Work in Progress:''' The [[Corpus of Wall Paintings from Christian Nubia]] - The [[Inscriptions of the Church of Sonqi Tino]]. ...1 KB (168 words) - 03:38, 22 November 2016
- [[File:c0640-ruined-christian-church.jpg|right|250px]] ...Society, under a succession of directors, from 1963 until 2007. Extensive Christian cemeteries below the citadel were not excavated. ...1 KB (215 words) - 19:58, 19 January 2011
- ...of 60 paintings was fully preserved, although all had been defaced in post-Christian times. They are by far the best source of information about late Nubian chu ...896 bytes (139 words) - 19:43, 20 January 2011
- ...nd the recovery of their contents. Consequently, they consistently ignored Christian graves, once it was recognized that they contained no offerings. ...o in the years from 1929 to 1934 compiled an inventory of all recognizable Christian antiquities from Philae to Khartoum (Monneret de Villard 1935; 1957). ...3 KB (428 words) - 19:18, 19 January 2011
- ...doubtedly achieved in the Late Meroitic (c. 100-350 AD) and in the Classic Christian (c. 850-1100 AD) periods. Early Christian pottery retained many of the characteristics of the preceding Ballana ("X-G ...3 KB (489 words) - 18:49, 25 January 2011
- <font size = "3">'''Welcome to Medieval Nubia!'''</font> ...collaborative publication of scholarly resources for the study of medieval Nubia. It is a site that will grow as scholars from the international community u ...2 KB (347 words) - 01:43, 24 November 2016
- in largeness. And between Egypt and Nubia it hath well a twelve journeys of desert. And men of Nubia be Christian, but they be black as the Moors ...3 KB (658 words) - 17:10, 26 March 2015
- ...to make their appearance, and their number steadily increased. By Classic Christian times every village of any size had at least one church; many had two, thre ...assic Christian times, and disappeared again in Late Christian times. Late Christian churches usually had a square or rectangular sanctuary rather than an apse. ...4 KB (568 words) - 20:34, 21 January 2011
- ...lso an important witness to cultural interchanges and interactions between Nubia and the outside world. ...s, and other joint publications (see 'A [[Guide to the Texts]] of Medieval Nubia' at this website). ...4 KB (607 words) - 18:00, 8 May 2011
- ...tional Museum in Khartoum. The island, which lies at the very head of Lake Nubia, has not been inundated, and can still be visited. ...1 KB (202 words) - 22:50, 19 May 2011
- ...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 ...5 KB (736 words) - 13:39, 10 May 2015
- The Christian Nubian dead were always buried in cemeteries, located wherever possible adj ...ad superstructures of more than a dozen types, all dating from the Classic Christian period (Adams 2003, 43-8). The most common superstructure type was a small ...3 KB (530 words) - 20:58, 25 January 2011
- ...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. ...d. The structures show a distinctly marked evolutionary development. Early Christian houses, like those of the preceding Ballana period, were generally small an ...4 KB (565 words) - 23:53, 24 January 2011
- ...rebuilt in the 10th. Illustrated pottery shows Classic, Late, and Terminal Christian wares. The church stands in the middle of a much larger walled compound whi ...755 bytes (111 words) - 21:28, 20 January 2011
- ...how respect by your mercy towards those other Christians in the Kingdom of Nubia and of other nations who are beyond the lands of the Sultan who are black a ...cause such great help will be brought to them by the black Christians from Nubia and from other countries above Egypt: they will descend upon their enemies ...4 KB (609 words) - 20:05, 24 March 2015
- The term "Nubia" is of relatively recent coinage, and refers to a region that never called The term Nubia today is used differently in different contexts. As a cultural and geograph ...2 KB (395 words) - 22:49, 18 January 2011
- ...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 ...of a non-Muslim nation. It was under this protective umbrella that Nubia's Christian civilization grew and flourished. There are several recorded versions of th ...7 KB (1,130 words) - 00:26, 21 January 2011
- Second India. Its principal king is a Christian. Of the The capital of the principal Christian king is in the interior ...4 KB (698 words) - 17:26, 26 March 2015
- published several articles on Medieval inscriptions from Nubia – the latest concerns the Christian inscriptions from Sai, one of the largest ...2 KB (302 words) - 00:31, 31 August 2015
- ...le of Nubia from then until the end of the Middle Ages adhered to a single Christian doctrine. ...ve been identified archaeologically, but it is evident that monasticism in Nubia played nothing like the important role that it did in Egypt. It seems evide ...2 KB (351 words) - 23:11, 18 January 2011
- The “Corpus of Wall Paintings from Christian Nubia” is part of the major project “Corpus of the and iconographic particularities of the Christian wall paintings from the Medieval churches in ...5 KB (776 words) - 14:22, 7 March 2011
- 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. ...5 KB (872 words) - 02:18, 20 January 2011
- [[File:c0640-ruined-christian-church.jpg|right|250px]] [[Category:Lower Nubia]] ...2 KB (47 words) - 08:41, 10 March 2015
- ...with which they are at war. Ma’atūm, also called Nubia (''Nūbyāʾ''), is a Christian kingdom and the inhabitants are called Nubians (''Nubim''). The Jews genera ...Africa, Arabia as well as from countries towards India, Savila, Abyssinia, Nubia, Yemen, Mesopotamia and Syria, besides Greeks and Turks. (ibid., p. 123). ...4 KB (612 words) - 20:18, 22 February 2015
- ...ed the Nubians, who go everyday naked, they do not love God, they are very Christian, they are rich in gold, they exchange in commerce, they posses three... [la ''The ports to the towns of Nubia are similar to the Caspian ports. They are places for troops to guard the N ...1 KB (230 words) - 17:39, 11 April 2015
- ...said to have founded Sidon in Phenicia</ref> son of the king of Egypt and Nubia. (Zotenberg, La Chronique, p. 253). ...y [the inhabitants of Ashmunein] sent a message to Elkad, son of Mūjāb, in Nubia, and invited him to come to them, because they wanted to make him their kin ...9 KB (1,489 words) - 22:24, 19 April 2016
- ...are Christian, and are black by the burning of the sun. Between [Egypt and Nubia] is a journey of twelve days, all desert and sand ...2 KB (362 words) - 14:56, 27 March 2018
- ...African slave who fled from Tombuctu to the Mediterranean coast, became a Christian and took the name of John Leo. He wrote, or more probably dictated, a book ...they undertake by an oath that they will not use it within the country of Nubia. The buyer pays to the sovereign a royalty equalling the price of the poiso ...5 KB (805 words) - 20:29, 25 February 2015
- ...ии, включая онлайн-версию [[Giovanni Vantini's Oriental Sources Concerning Nubia|''Восточных источников, касающихся Нубии (на анг.)'']], собранных Джованни ...ория (на анг.)''] и [http://www.amazon.com/Chronological-Systems-Christian-Nubia-SUPPLEMENTS/dp/839259195X ''Системы летоисчисления в средневековой Нубии (н ...6 KB (178 words) - 08:45, 10 March 2015
- Ottomans that was built on the ruins of their Christian the known Christian grave stelae ...6 KB (1,040 words) - 23:34, 18 January 2011
- ...ophysite confession, as pointed out by Monneret de Villard, ''Storia della Nubia Cristiana'', Roma, 1938, p. 66.</ref> ...4 KB (674 words) - 14:38, 1 March 2015
- ...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 ...7 KB (1,294 words) - 18:55, 12 February 2015
- ...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 ...7 KB (1,308 words) - 17:59, 23 June 2015
- [King Cyriacus of Nubia] ...vernor, sent for the Patriarch asking him to write a letter to the king of Nubia to turn him away from his invasion. He actually wrote to him, telling him t ...12 KB (2,063 words) - 15:59, 17 December 2016
- ...ey.</ref> at Tirmiz. The Nile flows first through Nubia, then into Egypt. Nubia is a mountainous country; when the river enters the plain it is already in ...either Nubians (''nūb'') or Greeks (''rūm''). I saw wheat and dhurra from Nubia, both of black colour. ...9 KB (1,691 words) - 18:28, 26 February 2015
- ...ey.</ref> at Tirmiz. The Nile flows first through Nubia, then into Egypt. Nubia is a mountainous country; when the river enters the plain it is already in ...either Nubians (''nūb'') or Greeks (''rūm''). I saw wheat and dhurra from Nubia, both of black colour. ...9 KB (1,675 words) - 18:58, 12 February 2015
- ...ep around me, in my army, one hundred thousand Muslim horsemen; as for the Christian horsemen, they are even more numerous, so that it is impossible to count th ...es, the Sword of the Christians and Support of the states which follow the Christian faith, the Friend (''ṣadīq'') of all Kings and Sultans, the Sultan of the A ...15 KB (2,810 words) - 14:14, 21 February 2015
- ''Yaqūt b. Abdalla ar-Rūmī. Traveller and geographer of Greek Christian origin.'' ''Bilāq'' ... is a place at the extreme end of the Ṣa'īd, where Nubia begins; it is the frontier between the two territories, (t. 1, p. 710). ...12 KB (2,179 words) - 17:33, 27 February 2015
- [[Toponyms and Ethnonyms for Nubia]] – catalogue number in the Dated Texts from Nubia database.<br> ...54 KB (6,552 words) - 19:35, 5 June 2015
- ...d ''Egziā’behēr'' (God). From this passage, one might guess that they were Christian (Conti Rossini, ''Storia d’Etiopia'', p. 274.</ref> and the devil by the n ...re careful to obey him and pay tribute. The Najāshī professes the Jacobite Christian religion (''dīn an-nāsraniyya al-ya’qūbiyya''). ...17 KB (3,045 words) - 16:34, 8 August 2015
- ...d ''Egziā’behēr'' (God). From this passage, one might guess that they were Christian (Conti Rossini, ''Storia d’Etiopia'', p. 274.).</ref> and the devil by the ...re careful to obey him and pay tribute. The Najāshī professes the Jacobite Christian religion (''dīn an-nāsraniyya al-ya’qūbiyya''). ...17 KB (3,060 words) - 19:32, 13 August 2015
- chapter of St. Matthew's Gospel, was a King of Nubia, and that when he came from Nubia and had drawn nigh to ...10 KB (1,782 words) - 20:00, 16 May 2015
- ...s adaptation of hagiographical traditions widespread in other areas of the Christian world. ...g.<ref>Frend 1979 and Walter 2003</ref> Nonetheless, this text shows that Nubia inherited the image of a mounted Saint Sisinios - like that known from Bawi ...10 KB (1,215 words) - 04:21, 22 December 2010
- ...o the Sea of the Ḥabasha '''[p. 508]''' on the east, the countries of the Christian and pagan Ḥabasha on the south, then the barren deserts on the west side an ...y in their rear, which might become their refuge. That is why they went to Nubia. When they realized it was not a country suitable for such people as they w ...16 KB (3,020 words) - 14:31, 12 May 2016
- [Under the reign of Emperor Constantine]. The Christian religion continued to spread and prevail over the others, until most of the [The Evangelisation of Nubia]<ref>Barhebraeus repeats almost literally the account of John of Ephesus.</ ...13 KB (2,312 words) - 20:15, 22 February 2015
- ...gh far from being impartial, is of paramount importance for the history of Nubia.<ref>It is scarcely possible to understand the history of the conversion of ...s received with great rejoicing. He instructed all the people again in the Christian religion, preaching and enlightening them. He also built a church and estab ...34 KB (6,177 words) - 22:10, 19 April 2016
- ...onquer it, to make it their refuge if attacked. But they [Ayyubids] found [Nubia] inhospitable to people '''[p. 572]''' like themselves, so they changed [th Both the kings and the people of Nubia were in the olden days Christians. When 'Amrū b. al-'Āṣ conquered Egypt, he ...33 KB (5,879 words) - 23:36, 19 January 2016
- ...perhaps it can be comparatively to Nubia or other territories bordering on Nubia.</ref> and is nearer to the western side (''maghrib''). All goods that are ...ained the Patriarch of the Jacobites having jurisdiction over the kings of Nubia and of Ḥabasha. (ibid. II, p. 473). ...27 KB (5,014 words) - 12:13, 25 February 2015
- ...Sūdān'' belong the Kanāw, the Sūra, the Hujāma and Qaljūr, all of whom are Christian Ḥubūsh. They are divided into six groups, via. the Amhara, to whom belonged .../ref> The Arabs call them "pupil-smiters", because, during the invasion of Nubia led by ‘Abdalla b. Abī Sarḥ, in the year 31 H. [652 A.D.] a part of the Ara ...9 KB (1,744 words) - 17:59, 22 June 2015
- ...s text, and has no re-edition himself. Thus, 1913, The Nubian Texts of the Christian Period, Berlin. '''This is presumably out of copyright.''' ...Studies: Past, Present and Future" in W. V. Davies, ed., Egypt and Africa: Nubia from Prehistory to Islam, pp. 286-293. Unknown P.QI inv. number, 1963/1964 ...8 KB (1,188 words) - 14:00, 17 June 2011
- [The Escape of the Sons of Marwān through Nubia [Year 132 H./749 A.D.]] ...Abū Rakwa’s rise and fall. We translate only the episode of his arrest in Nubia. Abū Rakwa left Spain at the age of twenty after he had been involved in a ...28 KB (5,037 words) - 19:28, 9 March 2015
- A priest from the people of al-Hind<ref>Not todays’ India, but most probably Nubia [or Ethiopia] which in the Upper Middle Age was vaguely called India.</ref> ...e robbed those who were Journeying to Miṣr, or Upper Egypt or Abyssinia or Nubia, of all their goods so that travel was interrupted on the roads and all the ...61 KB (11,339 words) - 17:56, 11 November 2015
- – 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> ...89 KB (11,756 words) - 19:18, 12 February 2014
- ...office (''diwān'') told me that he saw two letters which arrived from the Christian king of Ethopia saying that [the following words almost illegible are tenta '''[p. 470]''' [The Story of Invasion (''ghazwa'') of Nubia] ...48 KB (8,915 words) - 23:02, 17 January 2016
- ...tremere: ''Kirki''), son of Zakaria, son of John, was at that time King of Nubia. To fight al-Omari he appointed Nyūtī, son of ''Qoshma'' (Cosmas), a brave ...try for 7 years before leaving [Nubia] finally.<ref>Al-Omari's activity in Nubia ended before 255 H./868 A.D. (cf. above a ''Khitat'', ch. XXXII, par. 6). B ...30 KB (5,609 words) - 18:53, 12 February 2015
- ...tremère: ''Kirki''), son of Zakaria, son of John, was at that time King of Nubia. To fight al-Omarī he appointed Nyūtī, son of ''Qoshma'' (Cosmas), a brave ...try for 7 years before leaving [Nubia] finally.<ref>Al-Omarī's activity in Nubia ended before 255 H./868 A.D. [cf. above a ''Khiṭaṭ'', ch. XXXII, par. 6]. B ...30 KB (5,649 words) - 15:47, 26 February 2015
- [Tūrānshāh's Campaign in Nubia [568 H./1172 A.D.]] In this year the black slaves (''ʿabīd'') advanced out of Nubia to lay siege to the town of Aswān, where is the residence of Kanz ed-Dawla. ...56 KB (10,252 words) - 12:38, 22 April 2017
- [Tūrānshāh's Campaign in Nubia (568 H./1172 A.D.)] In this year the black slaves (''ʿabīd'') advanced out of Nubia to lay siege to the town of Aswan, where is the residence of Kanz ed-Dawla. ...56 KB (10,188 words) - 14:45, 16 February 2016
- ...655 A.D.) is the reading most likely to be the correct one.</ref>, king of Nubia, to 'Abdalla b. Sa'd b. Abī Sarḥ and that [on that occasion king Zakarīyā] ...overnor of all the districts of Egypt, north and south, from Alexandria to Nubia, and over al-Ḥijāz. (Cairo III, p. 153). ...27 KB (4,589 words) - 15:06, 1 March 2015
- [Events in the Christian Era] ...sion of the Nubians<ref>Michael wrote his own account of the conversion of Nubia and an abridged account of John of Ephesus's History on two columns, side b ...21 KB (3,755 words) - 15:34, 26 February 2015
- Arrives in Nubia's distant realm, and here So spake the sightless king of Nubia's reign, ...34 KB (5,789 words) - 20:06, 24 March 2015
- ==A Guide to the Texts of Medieval Nubia== ...nt proposes a set of citation standards for textual evidence from medieval Nubia. It is intended to supersede the ad hoc arrangements used in earlier ...238 KB (29,052 words) - 23:06, 28 February 2024
- ...tandards for citation proposed in ''A [[Guide to the Texts]] from Medieval Nubia''. Publications not yet in that checklist are indicated by reference to th ...sochlou<ref>Misunderstood by its editor? Cf. en topôi ochloê in Christian Nubia’s Greek funerary inscriptions?</ref> ...60 KB (4,882 words) - 13:51, 19 August 2014
- ...iscussed the identification of some of Idrīsī’s toponyms in ''Storia della Nubia Christiana'', pp. 199-206 and Map IV. As Idrīsī often mentioned water point ...and, ten days, and less than that by river downstream. The total length of Nubia, along the Nile, is a little more than two months. The people of ''ʿAlwah'' ...38 KB (6,847 words) - 12:32, 24 June 2015
- ...ements on the stronomical position of Dongola, distances between places in Nubia, the desert east and west of the Nile etc. have been omitted. Of the geogra ...continues as far as Nubia; then it turns [eastwards] along the borders of Nubia and those of Aswān, touches on the territory of the Beja which lies south o ...156 KB (28,571 words) - 14:20, 31 October 2015
