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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' ...

...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' ...

...r Egypt (''Ṣa’īd Miṣr'') are now called ''al-Marīs'': those who settled in Lower Egypt (''asfal'') are called Bijāma. .../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 ...

.... Thus, it is a remarkable example of the very late use of Greek in Lower Nubia, and as importantly, a remarkable example of Nubian Christianity<nowiki>’</ ...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 ...

''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). ...ear the territory of Nūba, three miles from the frontier between Egypt and Nubia. Al-Harawī said: "When the flood season is near, the natives place lighted ...

As for the land lying south [of Nubia], it consists entirely of desert (''qafr'') where nobody enters except thos ...is uninhabited is because, lying below the equator, it is the earlier and lower half of the terrestrial globe (''kurrat al-arḍ''), and he who is born in th ...

...e one from the Nūba." and also: "The best captive for you is the Nūba." In Nubia there is the white ebony from which thrones (''asirrah'', beds) are made. ( ...on the bank of the river (''baḥr'') and is surrounded by seven walls, the lower parts of which are of stone. ...

...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 ...on, traversing the land of the ''Nūbah'' and the land of Egypt, and in the lower part of Egypt branches off into four streams (''aqsām'') three of which end ...

In this year [472 H./1079 A.D.] the King of the Nūba<ref>King Solomon of Nubia who retired to monastic life in the church of al-Wādī. Somewhere at 10 days ...There were many armies: the Lawatha [sic!] and the Maghāriba had occupied Lower Egypt, the Blacks (''Sūdān'') Upper Egypt, the ''Malīḥiyya'' and the Turks ...

...uqurrah'') is the monastery (''dayr'') called that of ''Safanūf'', king of Nubia, which is the country below the second cataract (''al-janādil ath-thāniya'' In the land of Nubia, near the cataract, there is a town called the Upper Maks. No one is allowe ...

[Stories about the Invasions in Nubia] Nubia was invaded for the first time in the year 31 H. [652 A.D.]. 'Abdalla b. Sa ...

...qūbī, n. 2.</ref> then the homes of the Zaghāwa, who are Sūdān, and in the lower part of the aforesaid sections there is the desert of Nistara, without inte ...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 ...

...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 ...or we want to send you as our ambassador to the Biamāyē (= Bashmurites) in Lower Egypt, that they stop the rebellion which they have begun and make submissi ...

'''[p. 470]''' [The Story of Invasion (''ghazwa'') of Nubia] ...hey left on the 1st day of Sha'bān of this year [20 January 1276 A.D.] for Nubia. When they were about to enter the country of the Blacks (''sūdān''), the n ...

...-l-Qāsim b. Ḥawqal an-Nasībī, an Arab traveller and a Shiite, who visited Nubia and the Sudan about the year 955 A.D.'' [Nubia and Neighbouring Countries] ...

[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. ...

[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. ...

==A Guide to the Texts of Medieval Nubia== ...nt proposes a set of citation standards for textual evidence from medieval Nubia. &nbsp;It is intended to supersede the ad hoc arrangements used in earlier ...

...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 ...