nubia

plural nubias · alternative nuby

1. A light, knitted headscarf worn by women.

1. The region of the upper Nile valley between its main cataracts, now part of southern Egypt and northern Sudan.
2. broadlyA former polity ruling that region, particularly Makuria.

   Nubia is part of this landscape, created, formed and sustained by the Nile in complex interplays of geology and river hydrology.

   2019, Johannes Auenmüller, “Topography and Regional Geography of Nubia: River, Cataract and Desert Landscapes”, in Dietrich Raue, editor, Handbook of Ancient Nubia, volume 1, Walter de Gruyter, page 39

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   Except date trees, and a few grape vines which I saw at Derr, there are no fruit-trees in Nubia. The climate of Nubia, though intensely hot in summer, particularly in the narrow rocky parts of the country, is very healthy, owing perhaps to the extreme aridity of the atmosphere.

   1819, John Lewis Burckhardt, Travels in Nubia, Association for Promoting the Discovery of the Interior Parts of Africa, page 144

   Our knowledge of Nubia at the end of the 19th dynasty gradually becomes sparser. It appears that the Egyptians withdrew to the north, while the local population emigrated to the south.

   1978, Friedrich W. Hinkel, Exodus from Nubia, Akademie Verlag, page 27