Kush (redirected from Meroitic Empire)

Kush: see Cush.

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Cush

 or Kush

Ancient country, Nubia region of the Nile River valley. In the 2nd millennium BC it was subject to Egypt. In the 8th century BC Cushite King Piye invaded and conquered Egypt. It was ruled from 719 BC by Piye's brother Shabaka, who also invaded Egypt and set up the 25th dynasty; he subsequently made Memphis his capital. In the mid-7th century BC the Cushite kingdom's capital was transferred to Meroë, where the Cushites ruled for another 1,000 years.

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Cush, Kush Old Testament

1. the son of Ham and brother of Canaan (Genesis 10:6)

2. the country of the supposed descendants of Cush (ancient Ethiopia), comprising approximately Nubia and the modern Sudan, and the territory of southern (or Upper) Egypt