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Traditional faiths ( Dinka religion, Kalenjin folklore etc), Christianity , Islam. The Nilotic peoples are people indigenous to the Nile Valley who speak Nilotic languages. They inhabit South Sudan, Sudan, Ethiopia, Uganda, Kenya, the eastern border area of Democratic Republic of the Congo, Rwanda, Burundi and Tanzania. [ 1]
Havilah ( Biblical Hebrew: חֲוִילָה, romanized: Ḥăwīlā) refers to both a land and people in several books of the Bible; one is mentioned in Genesis 2:10–11, while the other is mentioned in the Generations of Noah (Genesis 10:7). In Genesis 2:10–11, Havilah is associated with the Garden of Eden. Two individuals named Havilah are ...
Pyramid at Meroë (Beg. N 1) Issue. Natakamani. Egyptian. Merkare. Amanitore, also spelled Amanitere or Amanitare, [ 1] was a queen regnant of the Kingdom of Kush, ruling from Meroë in the middle of the 1st century CE. [ 2] She ruled together with her son, Natakamani. [ 2] The co-reign of Amanitore and Natakamani is a very well attested period ...
Blemmyes. Today part of. Sudan. Egypt. The Kingdom of Kush(/kʊʃ,kʌʃ/; Egyptian: 𓎡𓄿𓈙𓈉kꜣš, Assyrian: Kûsi, in LXXΧους or Αἰθιοπία; Coptic: ⲉϭⲱϣEcōš; Hebrew: כּוּשׁKūš), also known as the Kushite Empire, or simply Kush, was an ancient kingdom in Nubia, centered along the Nile Valleyin what is now ...
Map of Ephraim, 17th century Dutch map. According to the Hebrew Bible, the Tribe of Ephraim ( Hebrew: אֶפְרַיִם, ʾEp̄rayīm, in pausa: אֶפְרָיִם, ʾEp̄rāyīm) was one of the tribes of Israel. The Tribe of Manasseh together with Ephraim formed the House of Joseph. It is one of the ten lost tribes. The etymology of the name ...
The Sudd ( Arabic: السد, romanized : as-Sudd, Dinka: Toc) is a vast swamp in South Sudan, formed by the White Nile 's Baḥr al-Jabal section. The Arabic word sudd is derived from sadd ( سد ), meaning "barrier" [ 2] or "obstruction". [ 3] The term "the sudd" has come to refer to any large solid floating vegetation island or mat.
Pharaohs in the Bible. Shoshenq I (centre), founder of the Twenty-second Dynasty of Egypt and the earliest Biblical figure to be attested in the archaeological record. The Bible makes reference to various pharaohs ( Hebrew: פַּרְעֹה, Parʿō) of Egypt. These include unnamed pharaohs in events described in the Torah, as well as ...
I. Iberia (modern Spain and Portugal) [ 21][ 22][ 23] India [ 24] Israel. Italy (Italy generally [ 25] and the cities of Syracuse [ 26] and Rome specifically [ 27]) Illyricum (territories near the Adriatic from modern day Slovenia to Albania) [ 28]