Barabra

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Barabra is an old ethnographical term for the Nubian peoples of Sudan and southern Egypt. The word is variously derived from Berberi, i.e. people of Berber, or as identical with Barabara, figuring in the inscription on a gateway of Tethniosis I., as the name of one of the 113 tribes conquered by him. In a later inscription of Rameses II at Karnak (1300 B.C.), Beraberata is given as the name of a southern conquered people. A tribe living on the banks of the Nile between Wadi Haifa and Assuan are called Barabra.

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