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The Bishari live in the eastern part of the Nubian Desert in Sudan and southern Egypt.They reside in the Atabai (also spelled Atbai) area between the Nile River and the Red Sea, north of the Amarar and south of the Ababda people between the Nubian Desert and the Nile Valley, an area of limestone, mountains, with sandstone plateaus.
Nubians have been resettled in large numbers (an estimated 50,000 people) away from Wadi Halfa North Sudan in to Khashm el Girba – Sudan and some moved to Southern Egypt since the 1960s, when the Aswan High Dam was built on the Nile, flooding ancestral lands. [56] Most Nubians nowadays work in Egyptian and Sudanese cities.
As early as the late 1400s to the early 1500s, following the end of the Mamluke Sultanate in Egypt and the Christian kingdom in Nubia, the Mahas ethnic group began to migrate. [1] The Mahas migrants settled in the “Three Towns” area, the present-day cities of Khartoum , Khartoum North , and Omdurman , and along the Blue Nile. [ 1 ]
The Blemmyes (Ancient Greek: Βλέμμυες or Βλέμυες, Blémues, Latin: Blemmyae) were an Eastern Desert people who appeared in written sources from the 7th century BC until the 8th century AD. [1] By the late 4th century, they had occupied Lower Nubia and established a kingdom.
In Egypt's history, the Southern region is the cradle of tribal settlements. By the nineteenth century, Southern Egypt and Northern Nubia were completely ruled-over by the Egyptian Hawwara tribe. Governance had become decentralized as the Hawwara spread their sovereignty over ten provinces and parts of the other remaining twenty-one provinces ...
Nubia (/ ˈ nj uː b i ə /, Nobiin: Nobīn, [2] Arabic: النُوبَة, romanized: an-Nūba) is a region along the Nile river encompassing the confluence of the Blue and White Niles (in Khartoum in central Sudan), and the area between the first cataract of the Nile (south of Aswan in southern Egypt) or more strictly, Al Dabbah.
The name appears in a list of Egypt's enemies inscribed on column bases at the temple of Soleb built by Amenhotep III. Among the details uncovered at the temple was a reference to a place called " sʿrr , in the land of Shasu" ( tꜣ-shꜣsw sʿr ), a name thought to be related to or near to Petra , Jordan .
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]