. The word "Nubian" cannot with any certainty be traced further than the Hellenistic and Roman writers. The Greek geographer Strabo (XVII, 2, 3) was apparently the first person to use the word Nubia to describe the country to the south of Egypt.
The area of North Africa which has been known as Libya since 1911 was under Roman domination between 146 BC and 672 AD. The Latin name Libya at the time referred to the continent of Africa in general.
Strabo, Geography, 17.1
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This proves nothing because we have evidence of Ancient Nubt(City of Gold) at least 3,500 years before Strabo. Do you realize that The Greeks and Romans have been corrected by many modern scholars?. They themselves were unsure about many of the claims they made in their writings. While they had the ability to identify people. They were not 100% accurate in all of their claims. They invented myths for the purpose of propaganda and they were no more liberal or humanitarian than today's Europeans. There does exist a tribe in Sudan called Nuba and they are a completely different people than The Nubts so Strabo was most likely speaking about them. I also find it ironic how you mocked me for quoting Diodorus and now you are quoting Strabo.
quote:Originally posted by SMirk92: [QB] This proves nothing because we have evidence of Ancient Nubt(City of Gold)
I'm not talking about Nubt I'm talking about the word Nubian which has not been proven to refer to gold and there were gold mines in the Eastern desert and Sudan
If you want to say anything about Nubt you will need references to ancient text of which the Egyptians used the word
If you want to say anything about Nubian you will need references to ancient text of which the word Nubian is used
we are not going to recycle the same material from your other 3 posts on this same topic here
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Naqada is a town on the west bank of the Nile in Qena Governorate, Egypt. It was known in Egyptian as nbwt, which became Coptic Ⲉⲙⲃⲱ (ǝmbō), which was borrowed as classical antiquity as Ombos /ˈɒmˌbɒs/. Its name derives from Egyptian nbw, meaning "gold", on account of the proximity of gold mines in the Eastern Desert https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naqada
Read the last sentence very carefully.
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