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  Adherents.com
The Blemmyes had adopted the ancient pharaonic religion, and after Egypt's conversion to Christianity, they fought the Romans and Upper Egyptians on religious grounds...
By the fourth century AD, Lower Nubia was divided between the Nubadae in the south and the Blemmyes in the north...
However, as the Blemmyes were devoted to the goddess Isis, Marcian permitted them continued access to the Temple of Isis at Philae in order to worship there.
www.adherents.com /Na/Na_327.html   (3082 words)

  
 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Nestorius and Nestorianism
A few years later Nestorius was dragged from his retirement and banished to the Oasis.
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.
He gave himself up to the governor in order not to be accused of having fled.
www.newadvent.org /cathen/10755a.htm   (5330 words)

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