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  • "Blemmyes," were honored for their valiant military prowess in Rudyard Kipling's poem

    FrontPage Magazine Faith J. H. McDonnell 2010

  • Did the forefathers of the Blemmyes disturb the hierarchy of Egypt, as their descendants afterwards did the Roman praetors?

    Travels in Nubia 2004

  • The walls are about ten feet in thickness, and are faced on either side with hewn stones, having the centre filled up by small ones thrown in confusedly, without cement; these walls were certainly intended for defence; it was, perhaps, a station of the Romans, against the Blemmyes.

    Travels in Nubia 2004

  • The listeners sit gravely in a semicircle upon their heels, with their spears, from whose bright heads flashes a ring of troubled light, planted upright, and look stedfastly on his countenance over the upper edges of their shields with eyes apparently planted, like those of the Blemmyes, in their breasts.

    First footsteps in East Africa 2003

  • Anlamani (623–593) campaigned against the nomadic Blemmyes and was succeeded by Aspelta (593–568).

    d. The Kingdoms of Napata and Meroe 2001

  • The kingdom finally collapsed in the third century C.E. under the assault of the nomadic Blemmyes and by the fourth century had been absorbed by the newer kingdom of Axum.

    d. The Kingdoms of Napata and Meroe 2001

  • On one occasion 20,000 men, women, and children took refuge in the White Monastery during an invasion of the savage Blemmyes of Ethiopia, and Schenoudi maintained all the fugitives for three months, providing them with food and medical aid.

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman 1840-1916 1913

  • The Syene of the Romans to the southwest of the present city, suffered much from the incursions of the Blemmyes, and from the pest; its inhabitants abandoned it to live in the higher parts built by the

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon 1840-1916 1913

  • He was at one time carried off by the Nubians (not the Blemmyes) in a raid, and was restored to the Thebaid with his hand and one rib broken.

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman 1840-1916 1913

  • Elephantina, where he built a castle, and made peace with the neighboring tribes, called by some Nubæ and by others Nabatæ, to whom he gave up the strip of territory which the Romans had conquered, of seven days 'march above the first cataract, on condition that they should prevent the Blemmyes and Ethiopians from attacking Egypt.

    Great Men and Famous Women. Vol. 1 of 8 A series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in History 1906

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