Crossword clues for nubia
nubia
- Region from the Nile to the Red Sea
- Ancient Nile Valley kingdom
- Egypt-Sudan region
- Region of ancient Africa
- Red Sea region
- Old Nile kingdom
- Nile kingdom, once
- Ancient Nile region
- Woolen scarf
- Site of an early Nile civilization
- Region of ancient Egypt
- Region along the Nile
- Old Egyptian kingdom
- North African area
- Nile region home to early African kingdoms
- Ancient African kingdom
- Abu Simbel's region
- Nile valley area
- Ancient Red Sea kingdom
- Ancient kingdom on the Nile
- Northeast Sudan, once
- Ancient Egyptian kingdom
- Nile Valley region
- Egypt/Sudan border region
- An ancient region of northeastern Africa (southern Egypt and northern Sudan) on the Nile
- Much of Nubia is now under Lake Nasser
- Knitted scarf
- Woman's scarf
- Region in Egypt and Sudan
- Ancient region of Africa
- Area of Egypt/Sudan
- Upper 16 Across region
- Ancient Nile kingdom
The Collaborative International Dictionary
nubia \nu"bi*a\, n. [From L. nubes cloud.] A light fabric of wool, worn on the head by women; a cloud.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
ultimately from a local word, said to be related to Coptic noubti "to weave," or from Nubian nub "gold." In the fashion sense "woman's light scarf" it is from French, from Latin nubes "cloud" (see nuance).
Wiktionary
n. A light, knitted head scarf worn by women.
Wikipedia
Nubia could mean:
- Nubia, the region along the Nile in Northern Sudan and Southern Egypt
- SS Nubia (disambiguation), several ships were named this or similar
- Nubia (Star Wars), planet in the fictional Star Wars universe
- Nubia (comics), a fictional DC Comics character centered in the Wonder Woman comics
- Nubia, one of the four main characters in the Roman Mysteries series
- New Ulaanbaatar International Airport, a new airport under construction in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia (provisional title)
Nubia is a fictional character, a comic book superheroine published by DC Comics. The original Nubia was created by Robert Kanigher and Don Heck, and debuted in Wonder Woman (vol. 1) #204, (January 1973). The modern character named Nu'Bia was created by Doselle Young and Brian Denham, her first appearance in Wonder Woman Annual (vol. 2) #8 (1999).
Nubia is a region along the Nile river located in what is today northern Sudan and southern Egypt. It was one of the earliest civilizations of ancient Northeastern Africa, with a history that can be traced from at least 2000 B.C. onward (through Nubian monuments and artifacts, as well as written records from Egypt and Rome), and was home to one of the African empires. There were a number of large Nubian kingdoms throughout the Postclassical Era, the last of which collapsed in 1504, when Nubia became divided between Egypt and the Sennar sultanate, resulting in the Arabization of much of the Nubian population. Nubia was again united within Ottoman Egypt in the 19th century, and within the Kingdom of Egypt from 1899 to 1956.
The name Nubia is derived from that of the Noba people, nomads who settled the area in the 4th century following the collapse of the kingdom of Meroë. The Noba spoke a Nilo-Saharan language, ancestral to Old Nubian. Old Nubian was mostly used in religious texts dating from the 8th and 15th centuries AD. Before the 4th century, and throughout classical antiquity, Nubia was known as Kush, or, in Classical Greek usage, included under the name Ethiopia ( Aithiopia).
Historically, the people of Nubia spoke at least two varieties of the Nubian language group, a subfamily that includes Nobiin (the descendant of Old Nubian), Kenuzi-Dongola, Midob and several related varieties in the northern part of the Nuba Mountains in South Kordofan. Until at least 1970, the Birgid language was spoken north of Nyala in Darfur, but is now extinct.
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.