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  2. Ancient Egyptian race controversy - Wikipedia

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    [8] [9] [10] In addition, scholars reject the notion – implicit in a black or white Egypt hypothesis – that ancient Egypt was racially homogeneous; instead, skin colour varied between the peoples of Lower Egypt, Upper Egypt, and Nubia, who rose to power in various eras of ancient Egypt. Within Egyptian history, despite multiple foreign ...

  3. Pre-modern conceptions of whiteness - Wikipedia

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    The medieval Arab world used various terminology for people in reference to their skin colour with terms like al-bidan and al-abyad meaning "white people" and al-Sudan and Zanj meaning "black people". [132] [133] In general in the Arab world, the term "white" was used to refer to Arabs, Persians, Greeks, Turks, Slavs, and other peoples in the ...

  4. Egyptians - Wikipedia

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    This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 13 February 2025. Ethnic group This article is about the contemporary Nile Valley ethnic group. For other uses, see Egyptian (disambiguation). For information on the population of Egypt, see Demographics of Egypt. Ethnic group Egyptians Total population 120 million (2017) Regions with significant ...

  5. Genetic history of Egypt - Wikipedia

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    The 135 modern Egyptian samples were: 100 from modern Egyptians taken from a study by Pagani et al., and 35 from el-Hayez Western Desert Oasis taken from a study by Kujanova et al. [5] The 35 samples from el-Hayez Western Desert Oasis, whose population is described by the Kujanova et al. study as a mixed, relatively isolated, demographically ...

  6. Slavery in Egypt - Wikipedia

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    The people enslaved in Egypt during Islamic times mostly came from Europe and Caucasus (who were referred to as "white"), or from the Sudan and Africa South of the Sahara through the Trans-Saharan slave trade (who were referred to as "black"). British pressure led to the abolishment of the slave trade between 1877 and 1884.

  7. Research sheds light on how 'white people' became white - AOL

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    Research in the journal Nature is giving new insight into how Europeans' skin color became lighter over time. The research comes from analyzing ancient DNA, looking at how traits like skin color ...

  8. Should This White Woman 'Protect' Her Half-Egyptian ... - AOL

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    One of the primary jobs of parents is to protect our children at all costs. One woman on Reddit wonders if that includes protecting her future kids from the racism her Egyptian husband endures. If ...

  9. White people - Wikipedia

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    White people in Cuba make up 64.1% of the total population according to the 2012 census [121] [122] with the majority being of diverse Spanish descent. However, after the mass exodus resulting from the Cuban Revolution in 1959, the number of white Cubans actually residing in Cuba diminished. Today various records claiming the percentage of ...