Region from the Nile to the Red Sea

Usage examples of nubia.

So they quit the fields and moved into the villages of Upper Egypt between Nubia and the beginning of the anabranch that enclosed the land of Ta-she.

But an un-Egyptian and unorthodox upbringing had not inculcated in Auletes a true respect for the native Egyptian priests who administered the religion of that strange country, a strip no more than two or three miles wide that followed the course of the river Nilus all the way from the Delta to the islands of the First Cataract and beyond to the border of Nubia.

The granite threshold of Nubia, is broken beyond Sehel, but its debris, massed m disorder against the right bank, still seem to dispute the passage of the waters, dashing turbulently and roaring as they flow along through tortuous channels, where every streamlet is broken up into small cascades, ihe channel running by the left bank is always navigable.

Thus in lower Egypt the transitional Amratian culture -- a Neolithic culture that was acquiring the use of metal -- knew of gold from Nubia before 4000 B.

Nubia, where the Blemmyes were said to wear their heads in their bellies and other men sported tails.

The Meroitic civilization flourished in southern Nubia after the fall of the earlier Cushite kingdom at Napata.

So they must have made their way to some back corner of the world, like his native Nubia or her native Bohemia, where they could live squalidly ever after.

From the pyramids of Menkaure, Khafre, and Khufu at Giza, to the banks of the Nile in Nubia open the portal, pave the path to the table of Eve, to the place of Light where Khepre, Re, and Amen cycle, oh great Queen Aset, mother of Kemet, take your daughter through the door!

By 1960, with the population at 26 million, the Russians—the new foreign protectors of Egypt—began erecting the High Dam, which increased cultivable land by 30 percent, doubled the country’s electric power supply, and created a reservoir (called Lake Nasser in Egypt and Lake Nubia south of the Sudan border) that guaranteed a strategic water reserve for Egypt in times of drought.

With a view of opposing to the Blemmyes a suitable adversary, Diocletian persuaded the Nobatae, or people of Nubia, to remove from their ancient habitations in the deserts of Libya, and resigned to them an extensive but unprofitable territory above Syene and the cataracts of the Nile, with the stipulation, that they should ever respect and guard the frontier of the empire.

With some breathing intervals of peace and order, the two dynasties are marked as a period of rapine and bloodshed: ^104 but their throne, however shaken, reposed on the two pillars of discipline and valor: their sway extended over Egypt, Nubia, Arabia, and Syria: their Mamalukes were multiplied from eight hundred to twenty-five thousand horse.

But the people of Nubia have a long history of oppression, atrocities, famine, and religious intolerance committed against them by the government of Sudan.