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Originally posted by candygirl
My name is Candace too. I never knew that it mean Nubian queen. I have however, heard that it means "incandescent" or "full of light.
Now that I think of it, in the New Testament, Candace was the name of an Ethiopian Queen. Maybe that's where Nubian Queen came from.
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*RM pulls out office dictionary and looks up the word Nubian*
...lets see, nth, nu, nuance, nub, nubbin, nubble, nubby, Nubian!
1. a: a native or inhabitant of Nubia. b: a member of one of the group of Negroid tribes that formed a powerful empire between
Egypt and Ethiopia from the 6th to the 14th century.
2: Any of several languages spoken in central and northern Sudan.
So yes, Nubia is/was, at least, semi-Ethiopian.
BTW, this also goes to show that referring to blacks as Nubian can be a bit of a misnomer, only blacks who lived/originated from this region can truly be referred to as Nubian.
And that's my lesson for today.