Nubia Egypt

On July 7, the Nubians celebrate the International Nuba Day in all parts of the world to celebrate this region, its history and heritage.

The idea of ​​celebrating the International Nuba Day was put forward in 2004 by a number of Nubian blocs.

But what is the Nuba region?

The name Nubia is derived from the word "Nub", which means gold, and the area was named so because of the largest gold mines in its land in the Al-Alaqi area.

The country of Nubia extended historically from southern Egypt to the south of the Nile River, and was divided into three kingdoms: Kush, Meroe and Napata. It included the Nile Basin countries: Ethiopia, Tanzania, Sudan and Congo.

The Nubians are one of the oldest civilized peoples in the world, concentrated around the Nile River for thousands of years in what is now southern Egypt and northern Sudan.

The ancient Nubia was divided into three geographical regions: the northern region inhabited by the Nubians "treasures" and speaking the Matuk language, the central region inhabited by Arabs, which includes six villages and speaks Arabic in addition to their learning of Nubian, and the southern region inhabited by the Fadiga Nubians.

Excursion to Nubia Village from Aswan

Grab the nubians

The displacement of the Nubians began in 1902 intermittently when the Egyptians began working in the "Aswan Reservoir" to solve the problem of the flood of the Nile, but the displacement in its largest form occurred in 1963, when the Egyptian government began to work on building the High Dam, as 44 Nubian villages were displaced from An area of ​​350 square kilometers.

At that time, Egypt and Sudan requested international assistance to save the archaeological sites that were threatened by the construction of the High Dam.

UNESCO sources said: "The dam was not only threatening the antiquities, but the entire Nuba with its people, monuments and land, so the countries asked for help so that people from all over the world came, engineers, architects and geographers to save the region."

During two decades, many monuments were saved, most notably the Abu Simbel and Philae temples.

Abu Simbel Temple is one of the world's well-known tourist attractions, as it was filmed in films such as Death on the Banks of the Nile and the Mummy. If it had stayed where Ramses II built it 33 centuries ago, it would have been under water now.

If the antiquities had been saved, tens of thousands of Nubians were displaced from their historical land on the banks of the Nile in southern Egypt and northern Sudan in the early 1960s to be resettled in desert areas where they could not practice agriculture, which prompted young people to leave the country in search of work, and to dispossess them About their roots Nubians began to lose their language and customs.

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