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| Nobadia ⲙⲓⲅⲛ̅ | |
|---|---|
| 5th century–7th century | |
| Capital | Dongola |
| Common languages | Old Nubian |
| Government | Monarchy |
Nobadia or Nubia was a kingdom in northeastern Africa. It formed when the earlier kingdom of Kush split into the northern kingdom of Nobadia and southern kingdom of Aksum. Nobadia adopted Christianity in the 4th century, and many Egyptian Christians fled there after the Muslim conquest of Egypt. In the 7th century, Arabs (first pagans and later Muslims) began attacking Nobadia and blocked off its access to Aksum and Sudanese tribes. In 651, the Egyptian rulers besieged its capital of Dongola. Nobadia finally fell to Egypt and converted to Islam in 1275.[1]:65
Economy[edit | edit source]
The Egyptian and Roman slave systems never displaced the indigenous Nubian system of nomadic herding. After the Arab conquest, Nubians were enslaved or conscripted, but the local economy remaining mostly the same until the 19th century.[1]:66
References[edit | edit source]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Sík Endre (1970). The History of Black Africa, vol. 1: 'The Peoples of Black Africa before the End of the 15th Century; The Hamito-Semitic Peoples of Africa'. [PDF] Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó.