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Dotawo: A Journal of Nubian Studies

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The Memories of Byzantium as Preserved in Nubia’s Political Ideology after the 7th Century CE

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Abstract

This study mainly focuses on the formation of the dominant ideology that Nubian rulers conveyed to the Nubian people and aims to show how the ideological influences from Byzantium integrated with the indigenous background into Nubia’s political system and created a unique Afro-Byzantine state.