1. Nubia is a region along the Nile river, which is located in northern Sudan and southern Egypt.
2. There were a number of small Nubian kingdoms throughout the Middle Ages, the last of which collapsed in 1504, when Nubia became divided between the Nudian Ottoman Egypt in the 10th century, and within Anglo-Egyptian Sudan from 1899 to 1956
3. The name Nubia is derived from that of the Noba people, nomads who settled the area in the 14th century, with the collapse of the kingdom of Moroe.
4. The Noba spoke a Nilo-Saharan language, ancestral to Old Nubian.
5. Old Nubian was mostly used in religious texts dating from the 8th and 15th centuries AD.
6. Before the 4th century, and throughout classical antiquity, Nubia was known was Kush, or, in Classical Greek usage, included under the name Ethiopia.
7.Historically, the people of Nubia spoke at least two varieties of the Nubian language group, a subfamily which included Nobiin, Kenuzi-Dongola, Midob and several related variaties in the northern part of the Nuba Mountains in South Kordofan.
8. A variety was spoken north of Nyala in Darfur but is now extinct.
9. Early settlements sprouted in both Upper and Lower Nubia: The Restricted Flood plain of Lower Nubia.
10. Egyptian referred to Nubia as "Ta-Seti."
2. There were a number of small Nubian kingdoms throughout the Middle Ages, the last of which collapsed in 1504, when Nubia became divided between the Nudian Ottoman Egypt in the 10th century, and within Anglo-Egyptian Sudan from 1899 to 1956
3. The name Nubia is derived from that of the Noba people, nomads who settled the area in the 14th century, with the collapse of the kingdom of Moroe.
4. The Noba spoke a Nilo-Saharan language, ancestral to Old Nubian.
5. Old Nubian was mostly used in religious texts dating from the 8th and 15th centuries AD.
6. Before the 4th century, and throughout classical antiquity, Nubia was known was Kush, or, in Classical Greek usage, included under the name Ethiopia.
7.Historically, the people of Nubia spoke at least two varieties of the Nubian language group, a subfamily which included Nobiin, Kenuzi-Dongola, Midob and several related variaties in the northern part of the Nuba Mountains in South Kordofan.
8. A variety was spoken north of Nyala in Darfur but is now extinct.
9. Early settlements sprouted in both Upper and Lower Nubia: The Restricted Flood plain of Lower Nubia.
10. Egyptian referred to Nubia as "Ta-Seti."