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    The Beja people (Arabic: البجا, Beja: Oobja, Tigre: በጃ) are a Cushitic ethnic group native to the Eastern Desert, inhabiting a coastal area from southeastern...
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  • Beja (Bidhaawyeet or Tubdhaawi) is an Afroasiatic language of the Cushitic branch spoken on the western coast of the Red Sea by the Beja people. Its speakers...
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    romanized: al-ʿabābdah or Arabic: العبّادي, romanized: al-ʿabbādī) are an Arab or Beja tribe in eastern Egypt and Sudan. Historically, most were Bedouins living...
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  • Look up Beja or Béja in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Beja may refer to: Beja people, an ethnic group in northeast Africa Blemmyes, historical name...
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    Beja people. They live in Sudan and Eritrea. They are mostly Muslim and constitute the largest tribal confederation in Eritrea. Some 300,000 people in...
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    Béja (Arabic: باجة Bāja) is a city in Tunisia. It is the capital of the Béja Governorate. It is located 105 kilometers (65 mi) from Tunis, between the...
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  • there were six Beja kingdoms that were established. These kingdoms stretched from the lowlands of Eritrea to Aswan in Egypt. The Beja kingdoms occupied...
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    expansion. Beja people Agaw people Awi people Beta Israel Bilen people Qemant people Xamir people Afar people Saho people Irob people Arbore people Daasanach...
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    identification with the Beja people who have inhabited the same region since the Middle Ages is generally accepted. Around 1000 BC a group of people, referred to...
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  • Cushitic speaking tribe, or more likely a subdivision of the Medjay/Beja people, which is attested in Napatan and Egyptian texts from the 6th century...
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    speak the Beja language or Tigre language as a mother tongue. In addition to their variety of Beja, known as Hedareb or T’badwe, most Hedareb people also speak...
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    Bishari tribe (category Beja people)
    one of the major divisions of the Beja people. Apart from local dialects of Arabic, the Bishari speak the Beja language, which belongs to the Afroasiatic...
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    Eritreans (redirect from Eritrean people)
    nomadic and pastoralist people, related to the Tigrinya and to the Beja people. They are a predominantly Muslim nomadic people who inhabit the northern...
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  • Hadendoa (category Beja people)
    Hadendoa (or Hadendowa) is the name of a nomadic subdivision of the Beja people, known for their support of the Mahdiyyah rebellion during the 1880s to...
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    with the Beja people, a minority ethnic group inhabiting parts of Sudan, Egypt, and Eritrea. The inferred ethnogenesis of the Tuareg people happened within...
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    related to the modern Beja language. Less certain are hypotheses which propose that Cushitic languages were spoken by the people of the C-Group culture...
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    together with a group of Beja intellectuals, as a political platform for the politically and economically marginalized Beja people. According to the "Black...
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  • Fuzzy-Wuzzy (category Beja people)
    hair style favoured by the Hadendoa tribe, a subdivision of the Beja people. The Beja people were one of several broad multi-tribal groupings supporting the...
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    between Sudan and Egypt. The original inhabitants of the state are the Beja people who constitute more than 65% of the total population, with lower wealth...
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    liturgical language by the clergy and among Sa'idi Coptic Christians. Beja people Fellah Nubians Upper Egypt Saʽidi Arabic (the dialect spoken by Sa'idis)...
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    being Other African ethnic groups such as the Beja, Fur, Nuba, and Fallata. When counted as one people Sudanese Arabs are by far the largest ethnic group...
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    name zaqqum has been applied to the species Euphorbia abyssinica by the Beja people in eastern Sudan. In Jordan, it is applied to the species Balanites aegyptiaca...
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    represented by Bedawiye (with several dialects), spoken by the largely nomadic Beja people. Nevertheless, some of them speak the Semitic Tigre language. Chadic...
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  • Amarar tribe (category Beja people)
    Amarar (or Amenreer Wagerda’ Amarer) is a nomadic tribe of the Beja people inhabiting the mountainous country on the west side of the Red Sea Suakin northwards...
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    Egyptians (redirect from Egyptian people)
    texts rather than ancient ones. Egypt portal Sa'idi people Nubian people Beja people Siwi people Religion in Egypt List of Egyptians Egyptian Americans...
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    Port Sudan (category Articles containing Beja-language text)
    Port Sudan (Arabic: بور سودان, romanized: Būr Sūdān, Beja: Bar'uut) is a city and port on the Red Sea in eastern Sudan, and the capital of Red Sea State...
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    estimated at 23,554 people and is inhabited by the Bisharin (Al Bishareya) and Ababda (Al Ababda) sub tribes of the Beja people. Egyptian ministries...
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    Cushitic speaking tribe, or more likely a subdivision of the Medjay/Beja people, which is attested in Napatan and Egyptian texts from the 6th century...
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    Headless men (category Mythological peoples)
    Reinisch [de] in 1895 proposed that it derived from bálami "desert people" in the Bedauye tongue (Beja language). Although this theory had long been neglected,...
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    their homeland. The Rashaida of Sudan live in close proximity with the Beja people, who speak Bedawiye dialects in eastern Sudan. In medieval times, the...
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