nubia

1. (by extension) The former polity ruling that region.Examples: "Except date trees, and a few grape vines which I saw at Derr, there are no fruit-trees in Nubia. The climate of Nubia, though intensely hot in summer, particularly in the narrow rocky parts of the country, is very healthy, owing perhaps to the extreme aridity of the atmosphere."; "Our knowledge of Nubia at the end of the 19th dynasty gradually becomes sparser. It appears that the Egyptians withdrew to the north, while the local population emigrated to the south."; "Nubia is part of this landscape, created, formed and sustained by the Nile in complex interplays of geology and river hydrology."broadly