Nubia

Etymology
The origin of this word is contested. At root it is probably a geographical rather than an ethnic designation. (See ). The related term  was used (with some uncertainty even among the writers as to its meaning) both for a people already living in the area and for those who conquered it in the 4th century CE.

Proper noun

 * 1) The region of the valley of the upper Nile, now part of Sudan (Upper Nubia) and far-southern Egypt (Lower Nubia):
 * 2)  The polity ruling said region.

Usage notes

 * Before the 4th century CE, the region was called Kush. The had long vied with Pharaonic Egypt for local dominance.
 * Writers during the Classical era were often unclear about the extent of the area they called Nubia. The Greeks regarded Nubia as part of Ethiopia, in its archaic, broad sense.
 * The Roman Empire used the term Nubia for the area of Upper Egypt and (present-day) northern Sudan.

Translations

 * Afrikaans: Nubië
 * Albanian: Nubia
 * Arabic:
 * Armenian: Նուբիա
 * Azerbaijani: Nubiya
 * Basque: Nubia
 * Belarusian: Ну́бія
 * Bulgarian: Нубия
 * Catalan: Núbia
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech:
 * Danish: Nubien
 * Dutch: Nubië
 * Esperanto: Nubio
 * Estonian: Nuubia
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Galician: Nubia
 * Georgian: ნუბია
 * German:
 * Greek: Νουβία
 * Hebrew: נוביה
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic: Núbía
 * Indonesian: Nubia
 * Italian: Nubia
 * Japanese: ヌビア
 * Kazakh: Нубия
 * Korean: 누비아
 * Kyrgyz: Нубия
 * Latvian: Nūbija
 * Lithuanian: Nubija
 * Macedonian: Нубија
 * Malay: Nubia
 * Marathi: नुबिया
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: Nubia
 * Nynorsk: Nubia
 * Persian:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian: Nubia
 * Russian:
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: Нубија
 * Roman:
 * Slovak: Núbia
 * Slovene: Nubija
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish: Nubien
 * Thai: นิวเบีย
 * Turkish: Nübye
 * Ukrainian: Ну́бія
 * Uzbek: Nubiya
 * Vietnamese: Nubia

Proper noun

 * 1) Nubia