• Thumbnail for Amara, Nubia
    Amara, usually distinguished as Amara East and Amara West, is the modern name of an ancient Egyptian city in Nubia, in what today is Sudan. Amara West...
    5 KB (281 words) - 11:17, 29 January 2021
  • Thumbnail for Nubia
    Nubia Nubia (/ˈnjuːbiə/, Nobiin: Nobīn, Arabic: النُوبَة, romanized: an-Nūba) is a region along the Nile river encompassing the area between the first...
    112 KB (12,922 words) - 00:29, 5 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for List of ancient Egyptian towns and cities
    deity Modern name Other name/s Note Chenem-Waset (Amara West) During Seti I's reign none Amara, Nubia Per-Menmaatre, Per-Rameses-meri-Amun Official residence...
    22 KB (69 words) - 08:05, 10 August 2023
  • up amara in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Amara may refer to: Amara, Iran, a village in Markazi Province, Iran Amara, Nubia, towns in Sudan Amara, Romania...
    3 KB (384 words) - 16:22, 19 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Shasu
    copies of the column inscriptions ordered by Seti I or by Ramesses II at Amara, Nubia, six groups of Shasu are mentioned: those of sʿrr, of rbn, of smʾt, of...
    21 KB (2,350 words) - 18:05, 12 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for History of North Africa
    Archaeological evidence has attested that population settlements occurred in Nubia as early as the Late Pleistocene era and from the 5th millennium BC onwards...
    61 KB (5,370 words) - 16:14, 3 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Kingdom of Kush
    an ancient kingdom in Nubia, centered along the Nile Valley in what is now northern Sudan and southern Egypt. The region of Nubia was an early cradle of...
    79 KB (8,709 words) - 20:43, 5 September 2024
  • Amara Dunqas was the first ruler of the Kingdom of Sennar, which he ruled from 1504 - 1533/4. "Dunqas" is an epithet meaning "bent down, with an inclined...
    2 KB (282 words) - 01:47, 24 June 2023
  • Thumbnail for Semna (Nubia)
    Twelfth Dynasty of Egypt (1985–1795 BC) in the Second-Cataract area of Lower Nubia. There are three forts at Semna: Semna West (Semna Gharb), Semna East (Semna...
    22 KB (3,010 words) - 07:57, 10 June 2024
  • This is a list of ancient Egyptian sites, throughout Egypt and Nubia. Sites are listed by their classical name whenever possible, if not by their modern...
    12 KB (1,091 words) - 22:36, 15 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Kushite religion
    Kushite religion (category History of Nubia)
    of Nubia (also known as Ta-Seti) in present-day Sudan. During the Early Dynastic and Old Kingdom periods, increased contact between Egypt and Nubia through...
    43 KB (3,549 words) - 15:07, 8 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Juju Castaneda
    appearances on the first season of Love & Hip Hop: Miami as a friend of Amara La Negra. In 2019, Castaneda made her transition into acting after being...
    24 KB (1,843 words) - 01:37, 13 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Funj Sultanate
    surrendered to the Ottoman Egyptian invasion without a fight. Christian Nubia, represented by the two medieval kingdoms of Makuria and Alodia, began to...
    58 KB (6,978 words) - 19:16, 8 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for History of Sudan
    archaeological research indicates that during the pre-dynastic period Lower Nubia and Magadan Upper Egypt were ethnically, and culturally nearly identical...
    90 KB (10,328 words) - 03:36, 29 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Amhara people
    Amhara people (redirect from Amara people)
    Amharas (Amharic: አማራ, romanized: Āmara; Ge'ez: ዐምሐራ, romanized: ʾÄməḥära) are a Semitic-speaking ethnic group which is indigenous to Ethiopia, traditionally...
    85 KB (9,489 words) - 14:11, 8 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Yuny (viceroy of Kush)
    the Superintendent of Deserts in the Southern Foreign country, Viceroy in Nubia (Ta-Sety), Chief of Works in the Estate of Amun, Chief of the Madjayu-militia...
    3 KB (283 words) - 09:21, 18 December 2022
  • Thumbnail for Kandake
    therefore reported back on his conversion to the Kandake. Evidence outside of Nubia that shows additional links to Kushite's queenship concept are found in...
    19 KB (2,138 words) - 19:40, 11 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Alodia
    Alodia (category History of Nubia)
    its stead. Islamized groups from northern Nubia began to proselytize the Gezira. As early as 1523 King Amara Dunqas, who was initially a Pagan or nominal...
    84 KB (9,620 words) - 15:11, 27 August 2024
  • Funj rose in southern Nubia and had overthrown the remnants of the old Christian kingdom of Alodia. In 1504 a Funj leader named Amara Dunqas, founded the...
    3 KB (346 words) - 15:45, 27 January 2024
  • Thumbnail for Elephantine
    of the First Cataract, at the southern border of Upper Egypt with Lower Nubia. This region above is called Upper Egypt because it is further up the Nile...
    28 KB (2,784 words) - 15:47, 12 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Amba Geshen
    Amba Geshen (redirect from Mount Amara)
    Reynal & Co., 1959), p. 156 E. A. Wallis Budge, A History of Ethiopia: Nubia and Abyssinia, 1928 (Oosterhout, the Netherlands: Anthropological Publications...
    8 KB (978 words) - 20:17, 24 October 2023
  • Thumbnail for Abdallabi tribe
    the fall of Alodia to the Funj, a group from the south led by their king Amara Dunqas, but most modern scholars agree that it fell to the Arabs. The Sudanese...
    13 KB (1,652 words) - 19:11, 20 March 2024
  • Amanineteyerike Amanishakheto Amanislo Amanitore Amanmašša Amantekha Amara, Nubia Amarna Amarna art Amarna Era Amarna letters Amarna letters–localities...
    80 KB (8,033 words) - 15:43, 2 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Kingdom of al-Abwab
    Kingdom of al-Abwab (category History of Nubia)
    the 15th, perhaps even the 16th, century. During the reign of Funj king Amara Dunqas (r. 1504–1533/4) the region is known to have become part of the Funj...
    13 KB (1,509 words) - 18:34, 22 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Amanitore
    A. Lobban Jr. (2020-10-20). Historical Dictionary of Medieval Christian Nubia. Rowman & Littlefield. p. 16. ISBN 978-1-5381-3341-5. Kuckertz, Josefine...
    7 KB (738 words) - 00:17, 29 November 2023
  • towards the building, restoration, and expansion of many temples throughout Nubia. The temples that can be accredited to the work of the two include: the...
    14 KB (2,321 words) - 22:15, 18 December 2022
  • Thumbnail for Selima Oasis
    (56 mi) west of the Third Cataract of the Nile and the ancient site of Amara West. It lies along the Darb al-Arbaʿīn (Forty Days' Road), a desert track...
    6 KB (810 words) - 22:17, 14 January 2024
  • Thumbnail for Qore (title)
    Kingdom of Kush, specifically during the Meroitic Period, in the land of Nubia (present-day Sudan). Kandake Ngola Pharaoh Vittmann, Günter. "A Question...
    1 KB (58 words) - 00:20, 23 July 2024
  • Viceroy of Kush (category History of Nubia)
    The former Kingdom of Kerma in Nubia, was a province of ancient Egypt from the 16th century BCE to eleventh century BCE. During this period, the polity...
    7 KB (293 words) - 22:38, 13 November 2023
  • Thumbnail for Sudan
    very dark skin of the indigenous people. Prior to this, Sudan was known as Nubia and Ta Nehesi or Ta Seti by Ancient Egyptians named for the Nubian and Medjay...
    188 KB (19,191 words) - 02:10, 17 September 2024