by hanyalmasri | May 16, 2015 | EVERYTHING ABOUT NUBIA
Many Nubians have left their homeland due to internal and external reasons. Agricultural resources in Old Nubia have always been limited. Therefore, the development of a complementary system of economic organization, consisting of consuming households in the villages...
by hanyalmasri | May 16, 2015 | EVERYTHING ABOUT NUBIA
In Egypt and the Sudan, the language of the Nubians is colloquially called: Rutana. Its Arabic meaning is “to speak unintelligibly”. This derogative term is sometimes even used by the Nubians themselves. The Nubians in the Nile Valley speak three languages: Kunuuzi...
by hanyalmasri | May 16, 2015 | EVERYTHING ABOUT NUBIA
The Nubians are an ethnic minority which occupies the Nile Valley between the first and fourth cataract. That is why they are also called Nile Nubians. In their ethnicity they are different from the many people groups of the Nuba Mountains in western Sudan. They are...
by hanyalmasri | May 16, 2015 | EVERYTHING ABOUT NUBIA
Geographically, the Nubian region can be called the corridor to Africa, linking sub-Saharan Africa and Egypt. As a narrow ribbon of the fertile Nile-Valley it stretches between the first cataract at Aswan and the fourth cataract near al-Debba. The more than 900 km...
by hanyalmasri | May 16, 2015 | EVERYTHING ABOUT NUBIA
It is almost impossible to visit the bigger cities in Sudan or Egypt without coming in contact with Nubians. The tall dark skinned people are ethnically distinct from the Arabs of the countries they are living in. although, their color and features vary enough to...
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