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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 Egypt through eastern Sudan and into northwestern Eritrea.
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Beja figure on Twelfth Dynasty ancient Egyptian tomb. The Beja are traditionally Cushitic-speaking pastoral nomads native to northeast Africa, referred to as Blemmyes in ancient texts. The geographer Abu Nasr Mutahhar al-Maqdisi wrote in the tenth century that the Beja were at that time Christians. [11]
Beja, nomadic people grouped into tribes and occupying mountain country between the Red Sea and the Nile and Atbara rivers from the latitude of Aswān southeastward to the Eritrean Plateau—that is, from southeastern Egypt through Sudan and into Eritrea.
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Nov 8, 2023 · History. The Beja people are one of the primary ethnic groups within Sudan’s intricate societal framework. Their present homeland spans from the region between the Red Sea in the east to the Nile River in the west.
Sep 20, 2012 · History: Many scholars believe the Beja to be derived from early Egyptians because of their language and physical features. They are the indigenous people of this area, and we first know of them in historical references in the Sixth Dynasty of ancient Egypt.
May 4, 2023 · Where did the Beja people come from? The Beja people are derived from the broader Cushitic ethnic group, which has lived in southern Egypt for around 27,000 years.
- A majority of the Beja people identify as Muslim. However, they practice a fusion of Islam with traditional folk beliefs in spirits known as jinnis.
- The Beja people in Egypt are pastoralists who practice nomadism, in which families follow their livestock in search of suitable grazing areas. The...
- The Beja people are derived from the broader Cushitic ethnic group, which has lived in southern Egypt for around 27,000 years. The Beja ethnic grou...
II The Beja Country and its Tribes 12 III Beja Origins 20 IV The Gold and Incense Lands (2500-50 B.C.) 27 V The Sabaeans and the Kingdom of Axum 38 (700 B.C.-A.D. 750) VI The Enemies of Rome (50 B.C.-A.D. 640) P VII The Arab Infiltration (640-1520) 64 VIII The Subjugation of the Tigre (750-1700) 80 IX The Turkia (I pO-I 880) 91
The Beja have been named "Blemmyes" in Roman times, Bəga in Aksumite inscriptions in Ge'ez, and "Fuzzy-Wuzzy" by Rudyard Kipling. Kipling was specifically referring to the Hadendoa, who fought the British, supporting the "Mahdi," a Sudanese leader of a rebellion against the Turkish rule administered by the British.
