Kandake
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kandake-209-2196296
title:
Kandake
text:
Kandake, kadake or kentake, often Latinised as Candace, was the Meroitic term for the sister of the king of Kush who, due to the matrilineal succession, would bear the next heir, making her a queen mother. She had her own court, probably acted as a landholder and held a prominent secular role as regent. Contemporary Greek and Roman sources treated it, incorrectly, as a name. The name Candace is derived from the way the word is used in the New Testament. A kandake who ruled in her own right bore
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wiki
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encyclopedia
description:
Title of queenmothers in ancient Nubia
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kandake
date created:
2006-11-06T13:34:00Z
date modified:
2024-09-11T19:20:21Z
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