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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 ...

...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 ...

...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 ...

...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 ...

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 ...

...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 ...

Second India. Its principal king is a Christian. Of the The capital of the principal Christian king is in the interior ...

published several articles on Medieval inscriptions from Nubia – the latest concerns the Christian inscriptions from Sai, one of the largest ...

...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 ...

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 ...

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. ...

[[File:c0640-ruined-christian-church.jpg|right|250px]] [[Category:Lower Nubia]] ...

...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). ...

...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 ...

...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 ...

...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 ...

...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 ...

...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 ...

Ottomans that was built on the ruins of their Christian the known Christian grave stelae ...

...ophysite confession, as pointed out by Monneret de Villard, ''Storia della Nubia Cristiana'', Roma, 1938, p. 66.</ref> ...