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Lower Nubia shown as a list of monuments at risk in the 1960 UNESCO Courier. Lower Nubia (also called Wawat) [1] [2] is the northernmost part of Nubia, roughly contiguous with the modern Lake Nasser, which submerged the historical region in the 1960s with the construction of the Aswan High Dam.
Lower Nubia was apparently reoccupied by the Kushites, to whom Hugronaphor turned for aid. Despite Kushite aid, in August 186 BC, the Ptolemaic army defeated the forces of Hugronaphor's successor Chaonnophris and his Kushite allies, and Ptolemaic rule was re-established over Upper Egypt and Lower Nubia. [ 5 ]
Upper Nubia is the southernmost part of Nubia, upstream on the Nile from Lower Nubia. It is so called because the Nile flows north, so it is further upstream and of higher elevation in relation to Lower Nubia. The extension of Upper Nubia is rather ill-defined and depends on the researchers’ approach.
Sherwood Forest is located in the central area of the San Fernando Valley region in the City of Los Angeles; it is within the Northridge South Neighborhood Council District. [2] The neighborhood is bounded by Nordhoff Street in the north, Balboa Boulevard in the east, the Southern Pacific Railroad in the south, and Lindley Avenue in the west. [3]
Northridge is a neighborhood in the San Fernando Valley region of the City of Los Angeles. The community is home to California State University, Northridge , and the Northridge Fashion Center . Originally named Zelzah by settlers in 1908, the community was renamed North Los Angeles in 1929 but the appellation sometimes caused confusion between ...
California State University, Northridge – located to the east of Reseda Boulevard between Nordhoff Street and Halsted Street, Cal State Northridge was founded in 1954 and is a four-year university in the Cal State system with 34,000 students, over 4,000 faculty and staff, sited on a 356-hectare (3.56 km 2) campus in the San Fernando Valley. [12]
Imperial Valley, named after the Imperial Land Company: General Law 179,057: 4,175 sq mi (10,813 km 2) Inyo County: 027: Independence: 1866: Mono and Tulare: Exact etymology disputed; early settlers believed Inyo to be the native name for area mountains, but it may be the name of a Mono Indian leader. General Law 18,527: 10,192 sq mi (26,397 km ...
The A-Group was the first powerful society in Nubia, located in modern southern Egypt and northern Sudan that flourished between the First and Second Cataracts of the Nile in Lower Nubia. It lasted from the 4th millennium BC, reached its climax at c. 3100 BC, and fell 200 years later c. 2900 BC. [1]