Difference between revisions of "Nubia"

<p> A large and ill-defined region of [[North-East]] Africa, lies between [[Egypt]] (N.) and Abyssinia (S.), and stretches from the Red Sea (E.) to the desert (W.); is divided into Lower and Upper Nubia, Dongola being the dividing point; [[Nubia]] has in recent times rather fallen under the wider designation of [[Egyptian]] Soudan; except by the banks of the Nile the country is bare and arid desert; climate is hot and dry, but quite healthy. </p>