- name
Blemmyes with the
modern Beja term bálami "desert inhabitant, nomad",
derived from bal "desert". The
people referred to in Gr****
texts as
Blemmyes may...
-
origins of the name "
Blemmyes", and the
question is
considered unsettled. In antiquity, the
actual tribe known as the
Blemmyes were said to be named...
-
ascribed an
uncivilized nature to the
Blemmyes. Both
Pliny the
Elder and
Pomponius Mela ****ociated the
Blemmyes with
mythical figures such as
satyrs and...
-
beings known as the
Blemmyes, who are
indeed said to have no head, and have
their facial features on the chest.
Cannibalism Blemmyes (legendary creatures)...
- year or in 300/301, he
makes agreements with the
Meroitic Nubians and the
Blemmyes. He
agrees to pay
subsidies to both peoples, and he
cedes the Dodecashoenos...
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African kingdoms North Africa Carthage Garamantes Nasamones chiefdom Cyrene Blemmyes M****ylii
Confederation Numidia Mauretania Nobatia Kingdom of Ou****nis...
-
praefectus Aegypti as
their new emperor.: 23 He enjo****
successes against the
Blemmyes attacking the Thebaid, but by
August 262
Alexandria was
devastated and...
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African kingdoms North Africa Carthage Garamantes Nasamones chiefdom Cyrene Blemmyes M****ylii
Confederation Numidia Mauretania Nobatia Kingdom of Ou****nis...
- Ibrim. The
letter was
written in bad Gr****
directed by the king of the
Blemmyes, Phonen, and his son, the
phylarch Breytek, to
Aburni Nakase and his sons...
-
successfully defeated the
Blemmyes to the North, and an
inscription by
Silko at the
Temple of
Kalabsha claims to have
driven the
Blemmyes into the
Eastern Desert...
